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Planning a successful MBO?

Strategy Driven

For this reason, management looking to buy the firm will connect with investors, banks, private equity firms, and possibly mezzanine lenders. An MBO or MBI can give you the opportunity to step up from senior manager to business owner. How do you plan a successful MBO?

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Portable Office Buildings Provide Everything a Business Needs

Strategy Driven

Mezzanine office. Well, you can consider using a portable office building system to put up a mezzanine office and thus create more space for conferences, offices, break rooms, and even storage. By their very nature, businesses are unpredictable, as a sudden demand for a product or service could arise, thus calling for a quick response.

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Day 3 Davos Snapshot

Harvard Business Review

I'm sitting here in the Partners Lounge on the Mezzanine Level of the Congress Center. (See Michael's earlier notes from Davos here , here , and here. And follow Justin Fox's coverage of the conference.). As usual, seats are in short supply, so I grabbed the first one I could find. It turns out I'm sitting next to three editors of one of the largest news magazines in the world. They are deep in conversation, so I type away for a while. Then they reach a pause and ask what I do.

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Entrepreneurs Need a Better Way to Cash Out

Harvard Business Review

There are a nascent but growing community of financial backers, both institutional and individual, who have taken the long view: whose investments look more like mezzanine debt, in the stable case, or like common equity, in the growth case. The most successful, visionary entrepreneurs dream not of millions of dollars, but of a world where their products change culture.

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How Smart CEOs Use Social Tools to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

Tools like Oblong Industries’ Mezzanine can bring multiple streams of data onto HD displays where they can be easily organized, manipulated, and archived into files that can be accessed for later use. Advances in digital technology and their use in organizations carry huge promise to empower people at all levels.