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5 Pitfalls of Marketing Waterfalls

Strategy Driven

The ‘lead’ is rightfully labeled as MQL, or SALs which helps a marketing operations person understand the definition for each defined stage, but it doesn’t help a practitioner understand if the customer segments being targeted are over indexing or under indexing, based on their investment and executional plan.

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How Midsized Companies Can Avoid Fatal Acquisitions

Harvard Business Review

They have strong due diligence skills. The reason is that conducting due diligence will be costly and arduous because small companies often have poor reporting and accounting systems. 2013 revenue of about $450 million), knows this well.

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business Review

However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. And alongside the country’s bad debt (some estimates say it is $40 billion ), sanctions were commonly evaded through money laundering , which discouraged foreign banks from operating locally. Finding the right local partners.

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

What traditional investors don’t like about any of this is the regulatory uncertainty; the high valuations and over-capitalization; the lack of control over financials, strategy, and operations; and the lack of business use-cases. It’s now worth approximately $1,1200 per bitcoin.

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Research Shows That Smaller M&A Deals Work Out Better

Harvard Business Review

The management understood that doing three deals a year meant they had to do due diligence on 20 companies and submit five bids. In 2013 PCC acquired Permaswage SAS, a manufacturer of aerospace fluid fittings, for $600 million and divested its Primus Composites business. Corning spent a net $3.2

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4 Types of Activist Investors and How to Spot Them

Harvard Business Review

According to Schulte, Roth & Zabel’s Activist Investing 2015 Annual Review, a total of 344 companies worldwide were subjected to activist demands in 2014, up 18% from the 291 recorded in 2013. Sometimes it doesn’t make sense for companies operating in the same space to continually compete. Example: MineMe Inc.

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