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Capital vs. Influence

N2Growth Blog

From my perspective I’d advise clients to give a bit on valuation, or live with more rigid financial engineering to acquire influence (gain access to markets, knowledge, intelligence, connections or superior business savvy). Hint: it’s not about the money. .

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4 Strategies that will Make You a Successful Internet Entrepreneur

Strategy Driven

Well, the answer to being a successful internet entrepreneur is in being innovative and ready to adapt. For example, if you have an eCommerce dealing with handmade leather shoes, you should do due diligence and research on what is being offered in the market. You ought to be innovative and creative to establish authority.

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Leadership & Change

N2Growth Blog

Agility, innovation, disruption, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment, and above all else a bias toward action will lead to the creation of change. If your entity doesn’t innovate and change in accordance with market driven needs and demands it will fail…it’s just that simple. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company

Harvard Business Review

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Next, you need to understand how digital M&A turns traditional due diligence on its head. So, what do you need to know to get up the learning curve? Let’s start with financing the deal.

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Divest With Care

Harvard Business Review

If a target got through the initial screen, the group was able to perform the necessary due diligence in three or four weeks. GE's expertise at building and marketing engineered products is legendary, but media and entertainment call for different skills. One question that seems reasonable in light of the low ($1.75

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The Mistakes PE Firms Make When They Pick CEOs for Portfolio Companies

Harvard Business Review

What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. ” But Hall soon caught himself after realizing he was charging too hard, especially with OSI’s field service engineers — the people who fix the machines OSI sells. .”

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

Three years later, GE hired veteran software engineer Ganesh Bell to be chief digital officer of GE Power and Water. Domain expertise at an automaker includes things like mechanics, telematics, structural engineering, design, and so on. Soon after, Trian did due diligence on the company and bought a $2.5 billion stake.