Strategy Driven

MAY 9, 2024

You may feel like things are stacked against your startup, but with the right strategy, you can beat out the odds and be one of the few who remain 15 years down the road. And with financing being one of the primary reasons startups go under, the right strategy needs to involve improving upon your operating capital.

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Operations Working Capital Management Finance 112

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With technology reshaping the global business landscape, many companies will be pushed to fundamentally reconsider their ways of doing international business, diversifying into new product categories and adopting a “borderless” expansion model. By Vera Sharova & Teodora Cosic.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Consider an exit strategy: A business that is built with passion and obsession does not come with an exit strategy. However, to be practical while you invest hugely, you must consider an exit strategy that can help you from a further downfall. Your finances: Nothing works without investment. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As more people depended on him, he spent his working capital, and the business failed. When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities.

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Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Buoyed by low-margin structures and new technological architectures that could support lower costs, the competitors that entered your industry were able to take more and more market share — eventually convincing even your best customers to embrace their products and services. It wasn’t easy to do, but it was a good strategy.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Longer supply chains also increase inventory levels and carrying costs related to financing and warehousing. For instance, a 25% reduction in the time needed to deliver a product or service can double the productivity of labor and of working capital.

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Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

But like the terms "strategy" and "business model," the word "entrepreneurship" is elastic. For some, it refers to venture capital-backed startups and their kin; for others, to any small business. At a new venture's outset, its founders control only their own human, social, and financial capital.

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Definition Entrepreneur Tactics Business Model 8