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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

This resource-intensive and time-consuming process put additional pressure on FinTech executives while leading highly diverse and remote teams. The diversity across markets results in a mixture of backgrounds of different belief systems, habits, and perceptions that govern the behavior of local team members.

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How Middle Market Companies Can Avoid a Liquidity Crisis

Harvard Business Review

Managers tend to think about liquidity as a finance issue, but in face the behaviors of the sales and operations team — and how they communicate and work together — can have a direct affect on a company’s cash position. Following these steps can reduce a company’s working capital needs and increase earnings and cash flow.

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How can I start my own business?

Strategy Driven

And if you get hold of that idea, start hiring a dedicated team of developers to give your idea a shape. A blueprint: Sketch all that comes to your mind and pen down every minute detail that you will work on. Your finances: Nothing works without investment. Choose a niche that is attractive and in trend.

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.) It has the strongest balance sheet, is the most profitable mining business in the world (measured by underlying earnings and cash generation), has substantially reduced costs (by some $6 billion), working capital ($3.5

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Don’t Turn Your Sales Team Loose Without a Strategy

Harvard Business Review

It reorganized its sales force to focus on specific segments within the hospital market, and trained both its sales and service teams (which now visited sites early in the sales cycle) on outcome-based selling. Financing needs are driven by the cash on hand and the working capital required to conduct and grow the business.

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How Startups Overcome the Capital Gap

Harvard Business Review

The initial cash needs to come from revenues, not financing. A husband-wife team in Fort Lauderdale, Florida has built an e-commerce business selling cable organizers and closed 2011 at $16 million. A husband-wife team in Fort Lauderdale, Florida has built an e-commerce business selling cable organizers and closed 2011 at $16 million.

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

Harvard Business Review

For those companies with the skill to pull it off, it worked. Businesses such as IBM and Apple were able to weather disruptive shifts in their markets by taking such a course, creating separate teams and units focused on new innovations (PCs and smartphones respectively). Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt.