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Entrepreneur's Journal: Boost Your Consulting Business by Selling Software

Posted Jun 13th 2010 4:40PM by Tom Taulli (RSS feed)
Filed under: Competitive Strategy, Entrepreneurs, Small Business

Intuit logo Running a consulting business can be a juggling act. It's not easy to manage a variety of accounts while also continuing to look for new business. And, in light of the tough economy, clients are looking for ways to cut back on services.

What to do? Well, you can try to find new revenue sources. And one interesting option is to sell software products.

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Alibaba rockets ahead in Hong Kong debut

Posted Nov 6th 2007 9:43AM by Zack Miller (RSS feed)
Filed under: Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO), Cisco Systems (CSCO), China, Initial Public Offerings

Alibaba more than doubled on its first day of trading in Hong Kong today. After the trading day ended, Alibaba took its place as Asia's second largest Internet company behind Yahoo! Japan. All in, Alibaba is now valued at over $23 billion.

With shareholders including Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), Alibaba joins other high-flying Asian IPOs in 2007. I wrote briefly yesterday about the PetroChina (NYSE: PTR) IPO, which after it saw its value triple, is now the world's first trillion dollar company.

Part of what makes the Alibaba IPO so interesting is the firm's growth prospects. China's largest Web trading site for companies predicts profit will almost triple this year on increased spending in the world's fastest growing major economy.

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