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Exploring Finance Options for Trucking Businesses

Strategy Driven

Trucking businesses play a valuable role in the transportation industry. However, launching or expanding a trucking business requires substantial capital investment, particularly when acquiring trucks, trailers, and other essential equipment.

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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

The FinTech industry is not an exception and is yet to strike the right balance between timing and scope. Alex Lhéritier , Global Head of Working Capital Solutions at Kyriba , says: “Ensuring a two-way transparency and trust can prove essential to a leader in a constantly changing environment.

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

As you might suspect, Sam Walsh is a widely recognised name within the mining industry. Since taking up the CEO seat at Rio Tinto Sam has steered the business through a torrid industry downturn and firmly positioned them for new growth. What few may appreciate is Sam’s love for classical music, ballet and opera, art, antiques.

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Why Preventing Disruption in 2017 Is Harder Than It Was When Christensen Coined the Term

Harvard Business Review

Invariably, each CEO we host recognizes two truths: Digital disruption will reshape their industry in one fashion or another and they must find a way to embrace these changes. For managers of industrial-era organizations, the economics of investing in disruptive opportunities were vexing. Such was the nature of disruption.

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. As more people depended on him, he spent his working capital, and the business failed. Most African artisans do not bank because of the fees associated with operating current accounts.

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Can Crowdfunding Solve the Startup Capital Gap?

Harvard Business Review

No matter what industry it''s in or what product it''s selling, the absolute best way for a startup to obtain the capital it needs to grow is to generate revenue and reinvest profits. And of course, peer-to-peer lending has been around for a while, and some of it has been trickling over to startup financing.

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VC Stereotypes About Men and Women Aren’t Supported by Performance Data

Harvard Business Review

Nonetheless, statistics show that women-owned businesses, which account for one-third of Swedish businesses, are not granted the corresponding proportion of government venture financing; in fact, women-owned businesses receive only 7%. Operating margin: earnings per sales, which indicates the entrepreneur’s ability to earn revenue.