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Startup Businesses with Professional Consulting Services

Business Consulting Agency

Consultants conduct market research, competitor analysis, and feasibility studies to assess market opportunities, target audience needs, and competitive landscapes. They help define clear business objectives, value propositions, revenue models, and growth strategies that align with market trends and investor expectations.

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Using Online Platforms to Boost Your Billings

Successful Independent Consulting

Sample projects include company valuation, workshop development, competitive analysis, financial projections, go-to-market plans, performance measurement, and pricing. SpareHire is an online work marketplace for finance and consulting projects.” The home of independent business talent.” Some are fixed price, some by the hour.

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Why Private Equity Needs to Invest More in Talent Development

Harvard Business

A conversation with AlixPartners’ Ted Bililies on shifting strategy in a tough market.

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Finance Can Be a Noble Profession (Yes, Really)

Harvard Business

When I ask students graduating from Harvard Business School what they’re doing next, I often get some version of “I’m going into finance but…” Then they quickly explain that finance is just a way station on the route to nobler goals. And it is truly fascinating.

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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

Some people also call consulting a ‘talk-job’ – you go to the clients, you talk about what the ideal world scenario would be for a particular project, product or market, and your billable hours are sorted. Sales, Marketing, Production) and secondary functions (e.g. Finance, HR, Supply Chain, ICT, Legal).

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Embracing Experiential Learning

Tom Spencer

A few experiential learning opportunities to look for on campus include consulting clubs, finance clubs, student government, and technology development teams. As a result, students get a glimpse into what working in a particular space may feel like such as consulting, finance, politics, or technology. Opportunities on-campus.

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Want To Be On The Leading Edge? Forget About It.

Markovitz Consulting

Peter Golder and Gerard Tellis’s seminal study of 500 brands in 50 product categories reveals that almost half of market pioneers fail. In fact, the greatest long-term success belongs to companies that enter a market and become leaders about 13 years after these first movers. MITS introduced the first personal computer in 1975.