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What To Know When Buying A Business

Strategy Driven

All of these factors can impact your new business’s bottom line, and you don’t want to enter into an unprofitable business from the start because you overlooked an important question or two in the preliminary stages. You want to ensure you’re coming out of the gate swinging in order for your new company to be a success.

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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business Review

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. Banking for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been astonishingly unaffected by the rise of the Internet.

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How to Sell Your Ideas

Rajesh Setty

This is the next stage of elimination where you really give them your real attention and contemplate a bit. As they started becoming popular, others (most notable being Bill Gates) came to him. Your emotional bank balance. This is not a bad thing as you need to get a LOT of ideas before some of them turn out to be GOOD ideas.

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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

There is a big difference between “knowing that you can” and “deciding that you want to” and at Bettcher we use a toll gate product development process fashioned after Robert Cooper’s StageGate process. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

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Five Steps to Fixing Bad Apps

Harvard Business Review

Second, they take a few basic ingredients — brand, marketing, technology, and service — and combine them in just the right ways over the course of five stages. In each stage, they ask themselves what gaps need to be filled. Stage 1: Is there a recognition gap? Stage 2: Is there a brand-personalization gap?

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Profit Is Less About Good Management than You Think

Harvard Business Review

In some cases, companies’ moats have enabled them to survive multiple technology disruptions and industry shifts over time, making their founders some of richest people in the world: think Bill Gates, Carlos Slim, Amancio Ortega, and Larry Ellison.

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Luring More MBAs to the Social Sector

Harvard Business Review

By understanding and addressing the barriers, we have the ability to develop on-ramps and pathways to engage MBA talent at varying stages of their careers. Today, he is a program officer for Next Generation Learning Models at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. And what does it take to keep them on this path?