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Business Plan Development: Know your Finances

Strategy Driven

It sets out what your new business will do, how you will overcome the challenges of starting up and, most important of all, how you will make money. But your start-up business plan is all just wishful thinking until you start filling in the financial figures. Set up a spreadsheet projecting sales over the first three years.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

He asked one former major investor for a reaction to the company’s prediction (accompanying poor quarterly results): “that the [current] market contraction will bottom out soon and our profits will improve.” Nikon could then follow up by asking what would persuade the investor to repurchase.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

Driven by economies of scale, container ship size has been increasing for decades, with the largest ships now costing roughly $200 million. Building a large-scale biopharmaceutical facility requires up to $500 million. This setup provides company A with a steady dividend while allowing company B to reduce up-front capital outlays.

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The Customers Who Are Happy to Pay More for Less

Harvard Business Review

Size is perhaps the most neglected marketing tool. On a search of EBSCO’s Business Source Complete , I counted no less than 1,890 articles published in marketing journals in the past 10 years about price, but only 22 addressing package or service size issues. The New Tools of Marketing. Insight Center. drink at $4.75.