N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Barbers, plumbers, real estate agents, and almost all trade personnel are required to meet established levels of trade skills and be licensed; none will have as bad an impact on a customer as a bad manager or supervisor will! Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2010

They aren’t just the leader in their industry; they ARE the industry – and they anticipate crossing the $3-million mark by November 2010. Veteran Realtor Jean Newell had an idea for her fellow real estate agents. Now Man Cave does it for men. Don’t shy away from an idea just because it’s never been done before.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 20, 2010

As a real estate broker I encounter nay sayers and “nabobs&# too often in my profession. It takes an experienced professional to convince them that they should focus on something else that they are talented at before some of these deluded contestants realize that they don’t have the chops for the industry.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

One next-generation example already available today is YieldStreet, which offers a wide variety of debt investments—including real estate, marine finance, and litigation finance–that have generated an internal rate of return in excess of 12.5% on half a billion dollars invested on the platform to date.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

They received acclaim and took meetings with heavyweights at industry conferences. In this way, the industry parallels drug dealing. Facebook had 2,400 employees in 2011; 3,500 in 2012; 4,900 in 2013; and 6,300 today. For instance, real estate site Zillow has 812 employees, and travel site Kayak has only 205.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Jordan, quoting an industry study, reports that there are more than “200 malls with over 250,000 square feet that have vacancy rates of 35 percent or higher.” Even so, the downfall of malls could have a huge impact on the real-estate market. Louis Cardinals in 2006 and 2011, when the team won the World Series.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The company has since received a commendation letter from the Nigerian Presidency, and was one of ten companies (out of 3,300 firms) recognized in the 2011 Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship , which was organized by Legatum and Omidyar Network (a foundation started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2012

Consider the data just released in this week's " Crowdfunding Industry Report" from www.crowdsourcing.org. billion in 2011, and that funding volume is on track to nearly double to $2.8 banks lent (without real estate as collateral) to small businesses in 2011, according to the FDIC. billion in 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

China is America's third-largest export market, behind Canada and Mexico, accounting for 7% of US exports as of August 2011. America's biggest exports to China in the first eight months of 2011 were waste and scrap ($8 billion, 12% of total exports), soybeans ($5 billion, 8%), aircraft and related items ($4.2

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

The young and inexperienced CEO confessed that he often felt uncomfortable asking tough questions of the CFO, an industry veteran who was 10 years his senior. Sarah, an experienced real estate consultant, had always been happy to help. It’s that board I’m on — the real estate company.” It didn’t help that J.P.’s

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Similarly, AT&T’s iconic Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, carved out entire new industries through the creation of transistors, lasers, and the programming language C++. Consider the iPad, first released in March 2010; at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, close to a dozen tablets were on display.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

“I think we have a shot at building the best office building in the world” were the words Steve Jobs used to describe Apple’s new headquarters in 2011. These responses to the rapid change of technology seem reasonable when one thinks about how most companies measure their real estate investments.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The International Reciprocal Trade Association reports that in 2011 over 400,000 companies worldwide used bartering to earn an estimated $12 billion on unwanted or underused assets. Lufthansa has bartered real estate for media credits and aviation fuel. What do Honda, Haymarket Exhibitions , and your plumber have in common?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

A Jesuit friend of mine at neighboring Georgetown once told me, with admiration, how for years Trachtenberg outfoxed the rival school in everything from strategy to marketing to real estate acquisition, and in the process transformed underdog GW into a national powerhouse. A few years ago, Trachtenberg, together with Gerald B.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. The $19 billion sale of WhatsApp’s to Facebook made Koum and Acton, overnight, vastly wealthier than their next door neighbors.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

In Washington, where style often trumps substance, the mere disclosure of the CFPB's role in the settlement process is "sure to anger Republicans in Congress and a banking industry intent on diminishing the fledgling CFPB's legitimacy by questioning its authority to act before it's officially launched in July.".

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Nearly every criticism the authors levy in their op-ed is answered in 12 blog posts , a magazine article from January/February 2011, a video interview , and a slideshow that integrated community and commentary, which were published between last October and this May. We disagree completely.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

In 2011, floods in Thailand stranded hard drive and automakers for months without key parts. Real estate or hospitality companies with major coastal assets may want a Sea Level Rise Officer. Think of appointing a Chief Circular Economy Officer, a VP of Dematerialization, or Director of Water.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

In contrast, loans to larger firms have risen every year since hitting bottom in 2011, and are now up about 4% since that low point. Financial crises hit sources of collateral like real estate particularly hard, and this has negatively impacted smaller firms credit scores. Finance Small/medium business Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

Buss launched his career in real estate with $1,000 in 1959—a venture that proved lucrative. He had the backdrop of the perfect city to make his dream come true—LA and its entertainment industry. When my dad passed away [in 2011], he was still an employee of the Lakers and our family is eternally grateful.".

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. Dave McClure’s 500 Startups recently invested in a local real estate portal. And we counted 10 local exits in 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

MBO Partners, for example, predicted in 2011 that by 2020, “70 million people, more than 50 percent of the private workforce, will be independent.” And real estate agents, contractors, and others who are dependent on a boom-bust housing sector which has been mostly a bust in recent years.

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