Mills Scofield

JANUARY 12, 2013

My friend, Doug Sundheim’s new book, Taking Smart Risks , is an early winner for 2013 Must Reads. Of course, I did a bit of due diligence into this Doug guy and said yes. Before I get to how great the book is, the story of how Doug and I met starts with taking a smart risk! These are truly fundamental to taking risk.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

In 2013, the Marketing Sherpa B2B Analytics Study revealed that 63% do nothing or occasionally leverage data to gain any insight. For those mature waterfall users, I’m sure they have faced the reality of the extra due diligence required to add much more analytics to make the next smartest decision. What are you thinking?

Marketing 51

Marketing B2B Due Diligence Benchmarking 51

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Over the first half of 2013, I struggled through a deep depressive episode – my third as an adult. I didn’t travel for the last half of 2013 and decided not to travel in 2014 for business. As a VC, you need to conduct due diligence on companies. A Successful International Assignment Depends on These Factors.

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Travel Execution Venture Capitalist Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2012

From my experience investing in emerging start-ups (I'm invested in 60 right now) and launching my share of both failures (4) and highly successful (3) companies, I can attest that Mr. Isenberg is perfectly correct in his assertion that it's dangerous to expect crowdfunding of equities to work the same way crowdfunded donations do.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. A comprehensive compliance strategy is the essential bedrock for building and implementing a successful Iran plan. The best way to identify new partners involves in-person due diligence. Overcoming a lack of market data.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

M&A does boost companies’ growth and value, our new research shows, but the bet-the-company deal isn’t the route to success. The management understood that doing three deals a year meant they had to do due diligence on 20 companies and submit five bids. Corning spent a net $3.2

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CAGR Due Diligence Industry Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

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. And the movement is gaining acceptance as a mainstream investment strategy.

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