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Key Strategies for Aspiring Entrepreneurs Considering Franchise Ownership

Strategy Driven

Budgeting wisely, preparing for unexpected expenses, and familiarizing oneself with various financing routes are elemental strategies for financial preparedness. Navigating financing options and loan opportunities. Taking advantage of franchisor-provided resources to ease operational burdens.

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How to Prepare Your Business for International Expansion

Strategy Driven

It can bring plenty of benefits to a company – a whole new array of potential customers and the opportunity to operate in a less saturated market. However, it does come with risks – expanding is expensive and you’ll be operating in unfamiliar territory. How are your finances? Market Research. Right Team.

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Capital vs. Influence

N2Growth Blog

Astute investors mitigate risks and help to insure operational success by adding value to the business model, and by filling gaps that may exist in any of the areas I mentioned in the opening sentence of the preceding paragraph. Will I have unfettered access to other CXOs within your portfolio companies? .

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Toxic Work Environments | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Smart leaders see themselves as protector of culture, defender of those under their charge, champion of brand, and steward of trust. People can do some due diligence before going to work for a compnay. A bad attitude isn’t something good leaders take lightly. link] Donna Svei Great post Mike.

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Leadership and Opportunity | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Rarely will you come across a static opportunity in the sense that it will stand idle and wait for you to act…Significant opportunities are not only scarce, but they typically operate on the principal of diminishing returns. So much so, that if you don’t think timing is everything - think again.

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business Review

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. And alongside the country’s bad debt (some estimates say it is $40 billion ), sanctions were commonly evaded through money laundering , which discouraged foreign banks from operating locally. The best way to identify new partners involves in-person due diligence.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.