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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

While a business cannot scale without growth, a business can grow without being scalable. If your business model requires implicit customer growth your business might grow for a time period certain, but it isn’t scalable. My conclusions are drawn from 30 years of observational and experiential analysis.

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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Take Uber: at only eight years old, it’s already upended the business model of taxis. For this reason, organizational transformation is uniquely suited to the analysis, prediction, and experimental research approach of the people analytics field. Large incumbents are trying to keep pace with digital upstarts.,

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

Through this journey, we have raised the visibility of fundamental issues like the causes of exorbitantly high infant entrepreneur mortality, and alerted the entrepreneur community with a simple observation: Entrepreneurship = (Customer + Revenue + Profits); Financing is Optional. The rest of the services are for paying members only.

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

To answer that deeper question, we carried out a systematic analysis of the 146 unicorns identified by The Wall Street Journal. Thanks to this analysis, we identified four features that are common to pretty much all the unicorns and which we believe helps explain why they have been so successful. Financed by VC firms.

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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company

Harvard Business Review

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business Review

Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. Your customer feedback is coming in through a variety of channels: phone calls to founders, emails to engineers, even the occasional text message.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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