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F1 Racing and the Insurance and Finance Industry: A Comparison of Trends and Challenges

N2Growth Blog

Today, I will highlight some similarities in the insurance and finance industry and contrast them to Formula 1. Similarly, the insurance and finance industries are built on the promise of stability and security, playing a vital role in people’s lives and businesses.

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How to Start Your Post-pandemic Financial Spring Cleaning

Strategy Driven

The financial challenges have significantly affected the personal finances of millions of people. These include things they haven’t done for a while, such as traveling, shopping, and dining out. Before starting your financial spring cleaning, take time to evaluate how the pandemic affected your family and finances.

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Zero-Based Budgeting Is Not a Wonder Diet for Companies

Harvard Business Review

ZBB’s resurgence is further fueled by the uncertain markets hindering many companies’ efforts to attract fresh capital, as we see venture capital and private equity funds increasingly pushing ZBB on their portfolio companies, in the hope of securing a more rapid and profitable exit on their investments.

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

Companies can also rent their business applications (for accounting and finance, human resource management, marketing and sales, collaboration, project management, and so forth) on-demand from companies like Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Workday, Hubspot, Yammer, Dropbox, Basecamp and others. Need travel information or services?

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Virtual and Augmented Reality Will Reshape Retail

Harvard Business Review

One customer might try on shirts without having to travel to the store. By comparison, AR overlays virtual elements onto the real world as seen through a smartphone or tablet. But investment in the sector is hot, with AR and VR startups raising $658 million in equity financing last year. VR and AR are emerging technologies.

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Can Lending Technology Revive America???s Small Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

In comparison to larger firms, small businesses are less well equipped to efficiently navigate the loan process  in economic parlance, their search costs are higher. Although the online small business lending market is in its infancy, there is already disagreement over the appropriate level of regulation.

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The Secrets to TripAdvisor's Impressive Scale

Harvard Business Review

In comparison, TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Then, 9/11 hit and the travel industry was decimated.

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