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How To Secure Business Financing After Declaring Bankruptcy

Strategy Driven

Pitching to banks and investors to get funding for a new business is always daunting, but it’s particularly scary if you’ve already had a failed business and declared bankruptcy in the past. Although some banks will still lend to you, private investors are more likely to take a chance on your new business, so you should focus on them first.

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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

After graduating from the University of Oxford with a physics degree, he went into securities trading, first at Yamaichi International and then at the Bank of America. Benham is a renowned, albeit somewhat inaccessible, figure in the British gambling world. That inspired Benham to leave his day job and focus on gambling.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. banking assets and as such are “too big to fail”).

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. banking assets and as such are “too big to fail”).