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

Strategy Driven

Real estate is unaffordable for many, competition for talent and investment is fierce, and high state and local taxes and labor costs quickly consume whatever capital startups have secured. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Salespeople have questions. Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

Jeffrey, I’m an independent commercial real estate lender and commercial real estate mortgage broker. ” All the people you’re talking to in the real estate business only want to get a deal done. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Best regards, Jeffrey.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – The Government has Created a Monster

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With both banks highly concentrated in the weak Texas real estate market, the deal ended up helping neither bank. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. With both banks highly concentrated in the weak Texas real estate market, the deal ended up helping neither bank. All rights reserved.

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India’s Botched War on Cash

Harvard Business Review

Supply chain transactions, real estate deals, and even weddings and funerals have been frozen. According to a 2013 Mastercard study , India was in the “Inception” category of both absolute level of cashlessness and the trajectory of change.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

Real estate consultants are not business strategists, but the retail system gives them the say-so in establishing community presence. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Sadly, the criteria for retail stores opening is the availability of property, not marketplace studies and strategies.

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

But it was founded in 1981 and hit its revenue peak about a decade ago before delisting from NASDAQ in 2007 and shrinking substantially. Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013.