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	<title>It's My Business Info</title>
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	<description>It’s My Business Info is a blog about the experiences of entrepreneurs in Yorkshire.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Hitting the big-time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Luke Walsh</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a very exciting few weeks recently, as we actually won the HSBC Unipreneur Competition we were talking about in our last blog, which meant we’ve won £20,000!

The idea we put forward was based round my partner Luke’s PHD work, which aims to correct colour blindness problems when looking at a computer screen. We’ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short Squeeze</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blink</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Blink</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A short squeeze occurs when there is a simultaneous decrease in supply and an increase in demand for a traded stock.

When this happens the price for the stock is forced upwards and traders who have sold off that particular stock (as they thought that it would decline in value) are forced to buy it back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rome wasn&#8217;t built in a day&#8230;but look how great it ended up!</title>
		<link>http://www.itsmybusiness.info/rome-wasnt-built-in-a-daybut-look-how-great-it-ended-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Moira</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Clare Tomlinson &amp; Rachel Binns</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Things have been going really well recently; we’re really busy and have trained the same amount of people in the last 3 months as we did in the whole of last year!

Currently we’re launching the ‘Kids Saving Lives’ campaign we’ve spoken about in previous blogs, aimed at teaching basic first aid in schools to years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploding</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blink</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Blink</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Exploding is an expression used with reference to the planning and scheduling of a project or projects.

The expression refers to the blowing apart of an activity, a job or a task so that its component parts are exposed in greater detail. This process of breaking up a project can help to define the task and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleeping Beauty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blink</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Blink</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A business is considered a Sleeping Beauty when it has large cash reserves and huge potential.
It can also refer to a company that is in a prime position to be taken over but that hasn&#8217;t as yet generated any interest from companies in the position to buy.

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		<title>Hurdle Rate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blink</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Blink</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The hurdle rate is the minimum rate of return required on an investment.
Also called the benchmark and the cut off rate, it must be met in order for a company to have covered all the costs associated with a project and to have made some profit.
If the rate of return is below the specified hurdle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shoestring Budgets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blink</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Blink</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shoestring budgets are very small budgets which have been set aside for particular projects.
For example, think of the expression living on a shoestring which is when someone is trying to drastically reduce their living costs.
Applying this term to business we can imagine a start-up company in the first year in business operating on as little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Networking works!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Elaine Watson</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With everything being so busy up to Christmas I thought business would be a bit slower in the New Year. I was planning on a quieter period to catch up with my other work but actually things have stayed really busy. I think that has a lot to do with networking - everybody who comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jekyll and Hyde</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blink</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Word of the fortnight</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Jekyll and Hyde situation is, as the name suggests, a situation which from the outlook appears positive but upon closer analysis reveals that it has an underlying negative side.
The term can be applied to three different areas but has in each area more or less the same meaning.
In a financial sense, it refers to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mothballing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blink</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Word of the fortnight</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To mothball a project is to defer it or shelve it indefinitely.

Mothballing can also refer to the process of storing machinery on a long-term basis.
Storing machinery on this basis means that it is kept in full working order and that production may be restored quickly if needed.
As a production strategy, mothballing has its advantages.
For companies [...]]]></description>
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