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Formulates an effective plan to start your business through equity financing and other means. Acquiring a business loan with a winning strategy.

Learn the advantages and disadvantages of using private equity financing for businesses in the cannabis industry.

In 2003 Rana Kapoor grabbed the opportunity to display his financial foresight and founded Yes Bank. His magnetism captured the public eye for a long time. Known for his meteoric rise and entrepreneurial success, let us get to know the man behind this enterprise who singlehandedly turned this brand new bank into the 4th largest private sector bank in India in a matter of a little over a decade. Birth of A Passion Born to a middle class family in Delhi, Kapoor had big dreams as a child. He often shared his dreams of starting his own company with his grandfather, who had immense trust in the young grandson's dreams. After graduating from Shri Ram College of Commerce in New Delhi in 1977, he went off to USA to fulfill his dreams. He enrolled for MBA at Rutgers University in New Jersey. It was this stint that got him deeply inspired to pursue a banking career. He wanted to create something big, in this model, back in India. But before that he needed some more experience. Thus, upon the completion of MBA, he began his banking career as a management trainee in the Bank of America (BoA). With a deep passion for banking, Rana Kapoor's career flourished in 1980 at Bank of America (BoA), as he rose the ranks. His stance of taking intuitive risks, which brought him success every time, was highly commended by his employers. In 1990, he was awarded the coveted Eagle Pin by the chairman of the bank. With such a promising career trajectory, soon he became the head of their wholesale banking business as well as several high stakes assignments in various countries of Asia. However, all that success was not enough for him, as he had bigger dreams, of starting his own venture. After nearly a two-decade-long flourishing corporate career, Kapoor was resolved to embark on his own venture. He wanted to create something that he could call his own. He kept yearning for creative independence and even came up with an interesting business plan to create a non-banking finance company with f

While ex-athletes have a reputation for making bad business decisions, here are three who have become business successes after hanging up the spikes.

HalalTamweel.com is an Islamic Finance Portal with a clear aim to bridge the gap between the Investors seeking Shari'ah compliant investment options and the financial institutions offering the Shari'ah compliant solutions. In our exclusive Islamic Finance portal, we cover all aspects of investment options i.e. from simple saving account to Shari'ah compliant mutual funds, and Halal stocks

This installment in the How to Invest $1,000 series looks into William O'Neil's comprehensive CAN SLIM system for identifying stocks about to take off.

HONG KONG: Asian stocks bounced on Thursday after tentative steps by euro zone policymakers to tackle a crippling debt crisis, but investors remained wary that obstacles the bloc's leaders face could weigh on the euro and Asian currencies in the medium term.