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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

Providing senior debt to eligible FinTech companies will enable us to respond to the fast-changing FinTech industry and to strengthen our impact across 38 countries where EBRD operates.”. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) started the first Defi trade pilot project with DBS Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co.,

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Coworkers Should Be Like Neighbors, Not Like Family

Harvard Business Review

Families are people with whom we have a close bond and for whom we do whatever is needed, often expecting nothing in return. Any investment in those training opportunities pales in comparison to the cost of replacing people who leave the company. Similarly, companies need a shared vision that transcends the individuals.

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Who Pays Corporate Taxes? Possibly You

Harvard Business Review

That belief can be traced largely to a classic 1962 theoretical analysis by economist Arnold Harberger, who concluded that owners of capital — not just a corporation’s shareholders but anybody who owned some bonds, a house, whatever — bore almost all the burden of corporate income taxes in the U.S. By comparison, workers are pretty immobile.

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Why Uber and Airbnb Needed a Different Kind of CEO

Harvard Business Review

At Uber, the idea for the business has been portrayed as this stroke of ingenuity, but I learned it was actually inspired by a product placement in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale. By comparison, Chesky and Kalanick feel smaller, and their ambitions seem less world-changing. Uber has beefed up safety and background checks.

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Help – It's not a dirty Word! | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

My clients hire me not solely on the basis of what I can personally do for them in a vacuum, but rather what the collective influence of my network and resources can accomplish for them when I operate outside of my own personal bubble. link] mikemyatt Thanks for the great comparison between humility and narcissism.

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How startups can use reverse mergers to go public

Strategy Driven

Old debt holders need to be paid off and new debt is almost always issued, usually with complex seniority hierarchies and special debt instruments such as convertible bonds. Clearly the reverse merger is the superior option for the small startup on a cost-comparison basis alone. Public companies are worth a lot more.

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5 Ways the Best Companies Close the Strategy-Execution Gap

Harvard Business Review

Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001. Think of strategy as a portfolio of options, not bonds. The traditional plan-then-do model treats the value of any strategy like a bond. Unfortunately, usage turned out to be far lower than expected, order sizes much smaller, and capital costs far higher.