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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. These platforms use the latest technology to provide direct and safe interaction between borrowers and lenders through a simple application process. There are no hidden charges. What’s more?

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Carey Pellock on HR Leadership for A Better World

HR Digest

And so, we had to quickly create and adopt more flexible work conditions and rely heavily on technology to help ensure business continuity. . As a technology company, we are used to moving at lightning speed to keep pace with change and innovation. How do you plan to maintain the best HR practices in the ever-evolving industry?

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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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The Status Quo Is Risky, Too

Harvard Business Review

If your ideas are met with choruses of “that will never work,” “we can’t take that risk,” “let’s just stick with the plan,” your teammates are likely falling prey to a common decision making bias that former Rotman dean Roger Martin refers to as Underestimating the Risk of the Status Quo.

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Can Your C-Suite Handle Big Data?

Harvard Business Review

Because the new data analytics horizons typically span a range of functions, including marketing, risk, and operations, the C-suite evolution may take a variety of paths. In some cases, the way forward will be to enhance the mandate of (and provide new forms of support for) the chief information, marketing, strategy, or risk officer.

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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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Business Can't Solve the World's Problems — But Capitalism Can

Harvard Business Review

Business will move the great masses of humanity forward with advancements in pharmaceuticals, materials, process, and technology — but it will almost always leave 10% behind. Even social business will not address those issues for which markets cannot be developed. This we do in the name of frugality. This we call caring.