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The Relationship Between Startups And VCs

The Horizons Tracker

Research from Bocconi University aims to plug that gap and explores the role VCs play in the M&A market. revenues, net income, or EBITDA).” This is because VCs have experience and repeat participation in the M&A market and pre-existing relationships between buyers and VCs further reduce the need for earnouts.

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Entrepreneurs Need a Better Way to Cash Out

Harvard Business Review

But analysts are judging EBITDA, P/E ratios, quarterly growth, and cashflows – which don’t always correlate with long-term value creation. Ultimately, high-risk venture capital investors need to be rewarded, ideally with high returns, for an ecosystem of innovation to be sustainable. Entrepreneurship Finance'

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How Do You Rank the World’s Best CEOs?

Harvard Business Review

An HBR team recently addressed that question by ranking CEOs according to the increases their companies have seen in total shareholder return and market capitalization across their whole tenures. How do you measure a CEO’s impact? We call it the RepTrak scorecard.

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Shape Strategy With Simple Rules, Not Complex Frameworks

Harvard Business Review

Once they understood the rules and their underlying rationale, ALL's employees generated a series of innovative proposals based on what they had to work with. Within three years, ALL's Brazilian rail operations had increased revenues by 50% and tripled EBITDA. Adapting to local circumstances.