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Google Can't Hire Anyone, So It's Going Crazy Acquiring Companies (GOOG)

Topics: Acquisition, Cash Flow

In the last twelve months, Google has acquired (or planned to acquire) twenty-six different companies. Why is Google going on such a crazy shopping spree? On a basic level, it can afford it, since it has billions in cash. And Google thinks its smart to invest in companies and people to turbo charge the company now for the future. But, below those superficial reasons there seems to lurk a more vexing problem for Google. It's no longer a sexy growth business, and we've heard that's making it harder for Google to attract the best and the brightest in the industry.…

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Financial Management Key to Small Businesses, Says NetSuite Exec

Topics: Cash Flow, Ecommerce, Financial Management, Sales, Small Business

Financial management is critical to ecommerce companies. But the tools to manage financial matters vary, and many of them don't automatically integrate with a merchant's ecommerce site, making the financial tracking and reporting process even more burdensome. To help us understand financial management for ecommerce businesses, we spoke with Jim McGeever, chief operating officer for NetSuite, a hosted, all-in-one ecommerce platform. Jim McGeever: "Well, no one really likes to do accounting. So, we've set up our accounting module, NetSuite Financials, in such a way that you shouldn't really feel like you're doing accounting. You should feel that you're running your…

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On Deck Capital Targets Businesses Banks Won't Touch

Topics: Cash Flow, Credit, Equity, Sales, Small Business

The online lending service is thriving by making loans to struggling small companies. When Mitch Jacobs founded online lending service On Deck Capital in 2006, his goal was to make loans to small business borrowers who had been rejected by banks as too risky. At the time, the need was hardly obvious. Business owners could borrow against rising home values, and banks stuffed mailboxes with credit-card offers. Those days are gone: $40 billion in bank credit to small businesses has evaporated since 2008, according to Federal Reserve data. The crunch has been good news for On Deck, whose short-term loans…

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Borrowing Still a Risky Bet

Topics: Cash Flow, Risk, Sales, Small Business

The Thomson Reuters/PayNet Small Business Lending Index , which measures the overall volume of financing to U.S. small businesses, rose 2 percent in July compared to the same month last year. My advice to entrepreneurs is to continue to be very cautious about expanding their use of debt. The use of debt brings added risks. New debt will add to the overhead of a business. This means that additional sales and profits -- more importantly additional cash flow -- will be necessary to cover the additional monthly expense associated with repaying new loans. Just like all small business debt, any…

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Best Practices for Selling Jello Shots?

Topics: Angel Investor, Cash Flow, Entrepreneur, Incubator, Investor

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: Getting serious about in-bar promotions. Lovely gals selling candy-colored shots to drunk guys - sounds easy as pie, right? Well, it turns out there's a little more to the formula than meets the eye. Today the Wall Street Journal profiles a service that outsources these so-called "shot girls" to trendy Manhattan bars and clubs. Founded by a pair of former J.P. Morgan and Bear Stearns analysts, Auld D'Leo Inc. trains its 25-person staff in the 10 best practices of…

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Get Paid Now

Topics: Accounting, Cash Flow, Credit, Small Business

Want to charge up your cash flow? Invoice and collect online. Here's how. Then Martinez signed up for American Express' If what follows sounds like something crafted by a guy on AmEx's payroll, please rest assured I'm not. What I'm doing, with Martinez's help, is trying to help your company be a little quicker, better and wiser. AcceptPay lets Martinez send customized invoices to her customers via e-mail. She imported a customer list so the amount of time it took for her to get up and running was minimal. Some of her customers get recurring invoices too, which the service…

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