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Salespeople have questions. Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

Their boss would buy it, they would buy it, their CEO would buy it, and their spouse would buy it. 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.

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

Still, most colleges are lucky if they can afford even a small team charged with developing new lines of business and new business models. The National Association of College and University Business Officers Study on Endowments reveals that endowments are performing enviably — with returns of near 12% in 2013. a better place to be.

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Don't Abandon Crowdfunding -- Manage It

Harvard Business Review

As an entrepreneur, angel investor, VC, philanthropist, and CEO with 40 years' experience, I cannot agree. will not be legalized until 2013). banks lent (without real estate as collateral) to small businesses in 2011, according to the FDIC. More than 80% of campaigns in this category have raised more than $25,000.

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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

And what about getting candid feedback for your own growth and development? Fallouts with family over work can cause a tremendous amount of anger, sadness, and shame , says Rob Lachenauer, CEO and cofounder of Banyan Family Business Advisors. “I had to get a master’s degree in real estate development.

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Know When to Kill Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

But as Netflix and online media channels developed, Blockbuster was no longer unique in fulfilling that purpose, and the way it fulfilled it became anachronistic. There may have been another business that they could have started, utilizing the company’s assets (real estate, technology, staff, etc.)

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924. We felt defeated and powerless.”.

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