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How Do I Start A Small Business?

Strategy Driven

Mentioning the entire marketing and sales strategy with its amendments, financial projections, procedures of retaining customers. Accurately Evaluating Your Finances and Funding Your Business. Clearly mentioning the funding requirements with the specified amount and its typecast. Choose Your Business Structure Wisely.

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Global Entrepreneurs Need New Funding Models

Harvard Business Review

In low-income countries, according to World Bank data in a recent paper by the consultancy Dalberg, 43% of businesses with between 20 and 99 employees say that access to finance is a major constraint. The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure.[and]

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Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

LPs pay VCs like asset managers, not investors. VCs have hardly taken the lead on “creative destruction” in the industry either, but as we’ve seen, the high levels of asset management style fees and the continuous gush of capital into ever-larger VC funds provides little economic incentive for them to do so.

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8 Ways Machine Learning Is Improving Companies’ Work Processes

Harvard Business Review

Automating finance. This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. Drone- and satellite-based asset management. AI can expedite “exception handling” in many financial processes. Measuring brand exposure.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. ” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals?

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Unlocking the Full Potential of Your Business Software

Strategy Driven

Whether it’s a technical document that is being written by several authors or a project document that has to be edited by several people, Google Docs offers the necessary tools to take advantage of it. You might think about hiring a new employee because it seems like your finance department isn’t being productive enough.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business Review

Likely outcomes of the move to cloud include changing how products are designed; closer collaboration between the corporate IT department and other business units, including sales, finance and forecasting; and more customer interaction, even to a point of jointly developing products with their consumers. ” What else needs to change?