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Going Beyond: N2Growth’s Holistic Approach to CRO Search

N2Growth Blog

Under their stewardship, the CRO implements innovative revenue generation techniques and ensures effective business model operations. Additionally, they must have strong financial acumen, innovative marketing strategies, and an ability to anticipate market trends. However, more is needed.

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Capital vs. Influence

N2Growth Blog

Following are just a few representative non-financial questions that I recommend my clients ask of potential investors: What can you do for my company besides invest in it? The moral of this story is don’t get so hung-up on valuation that you fail to get the in the trenches expertise your company will need in future.

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Toxic Work Environments | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In the text that follows you’ll find the truth about toxic cultures… A toxic work environment thrives off of everything that great leadership stands in opposition to. It’s also important to understand that a toxic culture cannot exist if toxic people are not allowed to take up residence.

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How Banks Should Finance the Social Sector

Harvard Business Review

If financing is offered by a bank, the terms are often too onerous. As a result, charities and social enterprises do not have the cushion of external financing to manage their various capital requirements. This model is an innovative way for donors to achieve greater impact. Scaling Up Without Losing Your Edge.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

But the system is rife with problems, adding cost through fees and delays, creating friction through redundant and onerous paperwork, and opening up opportunities for fraud and crime. First, because it’s antiquated, a kludge of industrial technologies and paper-based processes dressed up in a digital wrapper. Computational Logic.

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The Stakeholders You Need to Close a Big Deal

Harvard Business Review

Every high-growth enterprise can name a moment of affirmation that changed everything – that first big win that established credibility and created the launching pad for what followed. In 2008, I was on the business team at OnLive—a high-flying start-up in search of huge amounts of cash to turn a big idea into reality.

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Is VW’s Fraud the End of Large-Scale Corporate Deception?

Harvard Business Review

Follow-up tests erased any reasonable, or benefit of the, doubt. Consider “digital due diligence” emerging as a new normal for the sharing economy. In food, as well as finance, activists will have to marry meaningful analytics to ideology to spark interest and wield influence.