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Why P2P Lending Makes Complete Sense for Startups

Strategy Driven

The P2P lending market was valued at $67.93 Since the entire process is technologically driven, it ensures transparency and involves low operating costs and market risk. Here’s why P2P lending is an ideal business financing option for startups and SMEs. percent, despite the global pandemic crisis.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Can Your C-Suite Handle Big Data?

Harvard Business Review

Adding a chief marketing officer (CMO) became crucial as new channels and media raised the complexity of brand building, while Chief strategy officers (CSOs) joined top teams to help grapple with complex and fast-changing global markets. The hunt for such talent is taking place in the world’s hottest market for advanced skills.

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Entrepreneurship: A Working Definition

Harvard Business Review

Demand risk relates to prospective customers' willingness to adopt the solution envisioned by the entrepreneur. Technology risk is high when engineering or scientific breakthroughs are required to bring a solution to fruition. Financing risk relates to whether external capital will be available on reasonable terms.

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How CMOs and CROs Can Be Allies

Harvard Business Review

Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and Chief Risk Officers (CROs) may seem to have little in common. But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. Both practices have long developed insights into their customers based on data and analytics.

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If Crowdfunding is the New Day Trading, Look Out

Harvard Business Review

In an essay earlier this week on the evolution of money and finance, GigaOM founder and venture capitalist Om Malik argued that crowdfunding will be the new day trading, the latest financial innovation to “cut costs and [drive] wider participation in a previously closed and clubby market.” percent annually).