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Where your company is headquartered makes a big difference to your bottom line

Strategy Driven

The authors of the 2009 paper, Local Bias in Venture Capital Investments , note that “overall, these empirical findings suggest that distance is an important factor that impacts VCs’ investment decision as it increases information asymmetry and the cost of monitoring.” Recommended Resources – I Have A Strategy, No You Don’t.

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If You're Out to Change the World, How Do You Know When to Move On?

Harvard Business Review

But here the community is borrowing a term from traditional venture capitalists, who know that a big part of maximizing returns is having a plan for when and how to end one''s involvement in a venture and invest resources elsewhere. The magnitude of that goal can make the right time to exit seem like "never."

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Strategic Planning Steps

CO2

Strategic Planning At CO2 Coaching , we view strategic planning as a process of advance decision-making and alignment of minds. Done well, strategic planning and following these strategic planning steps saves time over time. The structure of strategic planning is critical to its success.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

Venture capitalists have their radar out for and provide ample resources for the catalysts to scale up very quickly. Those sessions produced a highly sophisticated system that achieved the end goal: a wonderful end-to-end experience for consumers. More such catalysts are entering the fray every day.

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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. Setting the growth target. Tallying new growth investments.