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The New Economic Revolution

Strategy Driven

From internet commerce technology has sprung forth the Bottom-Up Economic Revolution. Before founding WePay, Bill worked in technology investment banking at Jefferies & Company, where he advised enterprise software, digital media and financial technology companies on M&A and capital market transactions.

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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

But this new world of Big Data is proving to be much more demanding and complex than expected, requiring companies not only to adopt different technologies, but also to make significant changes to their business strategy, internal skillsets, and organizational structures. It is a disruptive paradigm shift that most companies have yet to make.

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Ensuring your business’s data integrity empowers profitable business decisions

Strategy Driven

Fortunately, companies are becoming more aware that a data integrity insurance system is a necessity and are implementing new technologies into their business processes in order to safeguard against a data breach. Books typically valued from $14.95 - $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed. References: Cosgrove, T.

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Why it Pays to be a Contrarian

Strategy Driven

Where others saw an economic boom, I saw only the exponential risk of some $500 trillion in promises that banks and insurers didn’t have the reserves to keep. Whether it’s Lehmann Brothers filing for bankruptcy, the introduction of a new technology, or a change of government regimes in sixteen different countries, change is inevitable.

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The Big Picture of Business – Collaborations, Partnering and Joint-Venturing… Priority for Business.

Strategy Driven

Organ donor banks and associations, in consortium with hospitals. Hardware, software and component producers revolutionizing the next generation of technology. Books typically valued from $14.95 - $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed. Private sector companies doing privatized work for public sector entities.

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A Refresher on Return on Assets and Return on Equity

Harvard Business Review

Banks, Knight says, tend to have low ROAs around 1%. Technology companies have very few assets so they’ll often have high ROAs. Banks, for example, get as many deposits as they can and then loan them out at a higher return. Similarly, banks will look at these figures to decide whether to loan money to a business.

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When a Simple Rule of Thumb Beats a Fancy Algorithm

Harvard Business Review

Sure enough, while sophisticated financial models performed poorly during the recent financial crisis , simple market heuristics ( buying stocks with low price-to-book-value ratios , for example) have withstood the test of time. Customers Decision making Information & technology'

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