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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

Although digitization has a significant catalytic effect on these processes, a successful diversification strategy would still need a solid basis and a set of scalable growth patterns that could apply to target markets. It will most likely overcome cross-cultural barriers as it expands into new markets.

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To Grow, Social Enterprises Must Play by Business Rules

Harvard Business Review

For-profit companies in the same situation can turn to a robust venture capital community that is focused on providing the management, financing and strategy that innovative companies need to scale up quickly. Yet those resources don't exist in the social enterprise market—even though the need is essentially the same.

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What to Know Before You Sign a Payment-by-Results Contract

Harvard Business Review

Sometimes, measuring the results can involve a substantial amount of data collection and analysis, and the measurements are often in dispute. Finally, some companies have struggled to finance their activities without payment while they work on delivering the results, limiting their ability to innovate too. Making PbR Work.

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Don’t Turn Your Sales Team Loose Without a Strategy

Harvard Business Review

When formulating a strategy, markets and segments are important categories to consider. But a market never buys anything. With analysis, Alphatech identified regional hospitals—which faced mandated digital-records requirements, and usually lacked the scale and IT staff to do that on their own—as their best customers.

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My First, Failed Foray into Venture Investing

Harvard Business Review

To paraphrase from "The Music Man," I am a sadder but definitely a wiser girl after this first encounter with venture financing, as this experience has become a well of lessons from which I draw daily in my personal and professional life. And because my husband and I were the providers of working capital, I had the luxury of being cavalier.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. The diverging fortunes of two recent spin-offs in the energy industry illustrate how financial markets value autonomy from the parent. Does the business have an adequate financial structure?

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

Among the firms we identified as focused on the long term, average revenue and earnings growth were 47% and 36% higher, respectively, by 2014, and market capitalization grew faster as well. public market capitalization over this period. The differences were dramatic. As noted earlier, if all public U.S.