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Why P2P Lending Makes Complete Sense for Startups

Strategy Driven

Since the entire process is technologically driven, it ensures transparency and involves low operating costs and market risk. Here’s why P2P lending is an ideal business financing option for startups and SMEs. Lenders needn’t support 100 percent of the financing; rather, it is pooled by many lenders.

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Deflation Will Take the Majority by Surprise

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When your finances are in trouble, sometimes you have to unload precious items to survive. Its staff of full-time analysts led by Chartered Market Technician Robert Prechter provides 24-hour-a-day market analysis to institutional and private investors around the world. Bonds No Safe Haven from Stock Market Risk.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

“The venture capital model works well when the primary risk is finance risk — as the entrepreneurial team works to scale their business model — but it doesn’t work so well when technological risk and market risk coincide,” Errol Arkilic, an investor that specializes in hard tech ventures, told me.

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Stop Trying to Predict Which New Products Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

respectively, suggesting that market risk is the major driver of our inability to predict. Look at the variance of your new-market products. Though there are multiple types of prediction, the gold standard is the prediction of precise outcomes.

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Still Many Ways to Skin a Capital Cost

Harvard Business Review

As the treasury manager in Verizon's corporate finance department, he saw the research as an opportunity to gain valuable benchmarking information about how the CAPM is currently being used by his fellow practitioners. One of the architects of the survey, Mark Scott, is also one of its beneficiaries.

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Entrepreneurship: A Working Definition

Harvard Business Review

Technology risk is high when engineering or scientific breakthroughs are required to bring a solution to fruition. Execution risk relates to the entrepreneur's ability to attract employees and partners who can implement the venture's plans. Financing risk relates to whether external capital will be available on reasonable terms.

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Can Your C-Suite Handle Big Data?

Harvard Business Review

Because the new data analytics horizons typically span a range of functions, including marketing, risk, and operations, the C-suite evolution may take a variety of paths. In some cases, the way forward will be to enhance the mandate of (and provide new forms of support for) the chief information, marketing, strategy, or risk officer.