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Six Easy Ways To Raise Capital For Your Business

Strategy Driven

You should definitely look for available options of personal financing if you are ready to take risks and comfortable with the potentially bad consequences. For instance, you can ask for some debt financing and then pay it back with interest, or simply you add them on as partners in your business. Or Venture Capitalists.

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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate

Harvard Business Review

Collectively, the world’s investment giants hold in excess of $70 trillion in assets, which represents the bulk of investable capital globally. Consequently, giant funds are often hamstrung by proportionally tiny operating budgets, which have historically forced them into the all-too-happy hands of intermediaries.

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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

Many venture capitalists are limiting their investments to the "demand-side" — aimed at reducing energy use — rather than investing in startups trying to change the way we produce energy. Since energy startups operate in an ecosystem dominated by incumbents, they can benefit dramatically from use of incumbent resources.

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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. The Global Digital Economy. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. For ideas to become reality, a company needs repeatable processes, not only out-of-the-box insights.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. Three thousand years ago the Phoenicians in Tyre were as globally entrepreneurial as the startupists are today in nearby Tel-Aviv. Even better.