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Protecting Your Small Business: How to Cover the Basics

Strategy Driven

The office you use, the office equipment you bought when you first started your business, the cash and financing options you have, employees filling key roles, and other assets of your business are equally important and are worth protecting. Fortunately, you also have more financing options to utilize these days.

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M&A Without Buying the Company

N2Growth Blog

or informal efforts produced via someone else’s R&D or innovation efforts, companies often start projects that they don’t finish. While this is not a market that everyone should dive into, there is substantial opportunity for exceptional returns for the right buyer. .

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.