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Why P2P Lending Makes Complete Sense for Startups

Strategy Driven

Since the entire process is technologically driven, it ensures transparency and involves low operating costs and market risk. This is an ideal scenario for startups as banks have extensive eligibility requirements and take a long time to approve a loan. P2P lending is a great alternative option for such businesses.

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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance. How long can you survive the repetition of the same mistake? And that alone is all well and good but we’ll miss the opportunity to create these short term wins unless we debrief. The Forces of global change can render professional skill sets obsolete almost overnight.

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Building a Minimum Viable Product? You're Probably Doing it Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Unfortunately, we usually pick the wrong kind of MVP: we tend to choose validating MVPs, even though most businesses fail because they persist too long in solving the wrong problem — what invalidating MVPs are designed to prevent. If you cannot get people to pay a realistic long-term price for a better product, it''s time to move on.

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Building a Minimum Viable Product? You’re Probably Doing it Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Unfortunately, we usually pick the wrong kind of MVP: we tend to choose validating MVPs, even though most businesses fail because they persist too long in solving the wrong problem — what invalidating MVPs are designed to prevent. Test market risk first. The Two Kinds of MVP.

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Decide, Change: The Two Essential Risks for Ultimate Success

Great Leadership By Dan

I maintain that embracing what I call the "two essential risks" is necessary to achieve your ultimate success in business. Sure, you hope to avoid liability, investment, and market risks as you pursue your entrepreneurial dream, so you take steps to mitigate exposure.

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The Scope of Supply Chain Management in the Corporate Sector

Strategy Driven

No matter the nature of the business or which type of market a business operates in, it cannot exist in the fiercely competitive market without effective supply chain management; no company in the supply chain environment can exist long-term without SCM. Decreased Disruptions.

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Still Many Ways to Skin a Capital Cost

Harvard Business Review

He went on to explain: "One practitioner might use the 1-year Treasury as their risk-free rate, while others may use the 10 or 30-year. However, the practitioner using the 1-year Treasury may also be using the higher Ibbotson long-term market risk premium, while the others use a more recent lower valued risk premium.

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