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How to source funds to expand your business

Strategy Driven

But sometimes, due to the lack of financial literacy or good financial advice, you may end up making the wrong choice. You could also find the nearest Small Business Development Center SBDC and register to access their small business loans. Here are some options that you may consider when sourcing funds to expand your business.

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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm … on “Good Company”

The Practical Leader

participation in decision making and autonomy, along with supervisory career support (information, advice, and encouragement). non-monetary recognition and competency development” “A compelling “for what” purpose can also bring out the best in employees. ”

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A Story on Importance of Processes: From Subroto Bagchi

QAspire

This book journals growth of MindTree from idea to IPO. That is a million dollar advice for anyone who is building teams and organizations. This is one book that helped me understand the business of doing business. It offers very interesting insights on some of the most important aspects of building great organizations.

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The Best Platforms Are More than Matchmakers

Harvard Business Review

Giving its hosts customized information, insight and advice about pricing their property, Coles observed, would lead to better outcomes for Airbnb’s ecosystems. This same socially shared educational/advisory capability can be seen in SAP’s carefully built developer community. Think APIs and SDKs.

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Can Your Company Survive a Bubble?

Harvard Business Review

student at the Ecole Polytechnique, and a statistics professor at Columbia) developed a statistical technique for detecting bubbles that they tested on data from the dot-com heyday. My sense is that any company that finances itself this way is a fraud, so the best advice for executives is probably turn yourselves in. A lot of U.S.

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Making Setbacks Work For You

Tim Milburn

” You can avoid the shock, and perhaps even prevent the setback from happening, if you develop the ability and the willingness to read the subtext beneath the surface. And do you remember Facebook’s disastrous IPO? The best approach might be to take the advice of the great Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. Perhaps so.

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Become Your Own Best Gatekeeper

Harvard Business Review

And I recall well, at the start of my career, how flattered I felt to be asked for a meeting or some advice — thrilled to be looked at as enough of an expert to be of help. You can develop your own criteria for whom to "let in the gate." Kathryn Minshew may simply be a better time manager than I am. The guy doesn't know anybody?