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Business Accounting

Lines of Credit: Online Lenders vs. Traditional Banks

If you go to an online lender looking for a line of credit similar to what you'd find at the bank, don't be surprised if what you're offered looks a bit different.

By Jared Hecht

Building a Business

5 Ways to Avoid Cash-Flow Log Jams

By Phil La Duke

Building a Business

Entrepreneurs: Here’s How To Make Sure You Get Paid

By John Rampton

Building a Business

Guess Which Mega Brand Makes Companies Wait 86 Days for Payments (Infographic)

By Eyal Shinar

Building a Business

4 Tell-Tale Signs That Scream You’re an Entrepreneurial Newbie

If Julia Louis-Dreyfus could overcome her newbie jitters, so can you.

By Anne Bechard

Business Accounting

10 Ways to Avoid the ‘Elephant in the Room’: Not Getting Paid

Don't let a cash crunch ruin the good thing you have with your customer.

By Greg Waldorf

Business Accounting

What You Need to Know About the 3 Biggest Global Payment Methods

Recent new technologies will join the roughly 200 different types of electronic-payment methods that currently permeate our world. With so many options and use cases, it can be daunting for any global business to select the right payment methods.

By Tien Tzuo

Building a Business

12 Billing Mistakes That Make It Harder for Your Business to Get Paid

A little effort upfront to get your invoices right often results in much more reliable cash flow.

By John Rampton

Tech

The EMV Card Deadline Is Coming. Here’s How to Prepare Your Business.

If you're not ready for to transition to EMV chip cards by Oct. 1, you could put your customers and your business at risk. Here's what you need to know.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Building a Business

5 Tips to Get Clients to Pay on Time

Cut out the stress around billing with these five strategies.

By Nina Zipkin

Thought Leaders

Stripe Co-Founder on How He Could Have Scaled Faster

For our 'If I Knew Then' Series, the CEO and co-founder of mobile-payment system Stripe discusses the importance of structure, benefits of working with family and finding product-market fit.

By Nina Zipkin

Building a Business

Alibaba’s Latest Payments Innovation: Selfie-Powered Transactions

The ecommerce giant is taking another step into the world of mobile payments – this time, using the selfie as an authentication tool.

By Nina Zipkin

Building a Business

SXSW: What ClassPass Learned About Making Decisions Easier for Customers

Before her SXSW panel on invisible payments today, we talked to co-founder and CEO Payal Kadakia about how simplifying customers' decisions changed her company.

By Laura Entis

Building a Business

It’s Not Me, It’s You: When to End a Toxic Client Relationship

If you want to take your business to the next level, you can't be pulled down by the dead weight of bad clients.

By Geoff Mcqueen

Building a Business

Visa Europe Paves the Way to Bring Apple Pay Across the Pond

The London-based payment processing company announced a new 'tokenisation' service that allows customers to pay on a mobile device without credit card information being disclosed.

By Catherine Clifford

Building a Business

What to Do When Final Payment is Due and the Client Won’t Pay

Use these tips to avoid working for free.

By Deborah Mitchell

Tech

NYC Wants Drivers to Pay For Parking Tickets Via Apple Pay, Mobile Apps and Bitcoin

Officials believe a revamped system would ultimately cut down on the losses the city incurs each year from unpaid violations.

By Geoff Weiss

Marketing

‘Opportunity Cost’ Sounds Abstract But It Costs Your Business Real Money

Clients who don't value your time keep you from those who do. There are polite ways to set them straight.

By Sam Madden

Building a Business

Good Work Plus These 3 Steps Converts New Customers Into Recurring Customers

A happy customer who comes back for more is, literally, money in the bank. Make their experience hassle free from beginning to end.

By Sam Madden

Building a Business

Square Rolls Out New Analytics Suite

Staying competitive following Amazon's announcement of its first mobile card reader, Square unveils new features.

By Nina Zipkin

Business Operations & Logistics

In Starbucks’ Grand Plan for Employee Education, Who’s Paying for What?

The coffee company and partner Arizona State have clarified the parameters of the new college program.

By Nina Zipkin

Business Legal

Have a Client Who Is Not Paying? Sue.

Perhaps the most undesirable customer is the one who avoids your invoices, emails and calls. If so, small claims court may be your best bet.

By Jaia Thomas

Online Presence

PayPal President David Marcus Jumps Ship to Run Messaging at Facebook

Marcus will run the messaging business for Facebook after leaving the eBay unit after three years.

By Ray Hennessey

Building a Business

Blockchain.info CEO: In the Future, You’ll Use Bitcoin Without Even Knowing It

Nicolas Cary discusses how you could benefit from the burgeoning Bitcoin economy, even if you don't own a single BTC.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Building a Business

Accepting Credit Cards and PayPal on Your eCommerce Site

Find how to set up your site to begin accepting the two most common methods of online payments.

By Entrepreneur Press and Rich Mintzer

Tech

How Bitcoin Is Fueling a New Payments Battlefield

The traditional payments industry is headed for an upheaval as more small businesses begin accepting Bitcoin and more payment startups rise to meet the growing demand.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Building a Business

Rumors Swirl That Square Is for Sale

The mobile-payments company founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has reportedly been talking to suitors about selling itself.

By Catherine Clifford

Building a Business

Bitcoin Millionaire Charlie Shrem Under House Arrest Following Federal Indictment

The bad-boy founder of the Bitcoin Foundation and BitInstant is back at his mom and dad's place and he's in big trouble for allegedly funneling $1 million into shady Silk Road dealings.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Online Presence

Report: Facebook Is About to Enter the E-Money Game

The social giant is gearing up to give PayPal a run for their money.

By Wendy Frink

Building a Business

Bitcoin Owners: There’s Now a Bitcoin-to-Cash ATM Card

One startup has launched a game-changing service that swaps bitcoins for dollars and puts them on a prepaid debit card that works in regular ATM machines.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow