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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

More businesses sold after being advertised on bizbuysell.com than any other year, and 2017 was 25% higher than 2016. It’s because we had a little event 10 years ago affectionately called the “Great Recession.” Barring unforeseen events like the Great Recession or 9-11 this should continue. This as per bizbuysell.com.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

McKinsey’s New York office recently received a perfect score for the 10th year in a row for the Human Rights Campaign Foundations 2016 corporate equality index, which focuses on the best places to work with regards to LGBT equality and gender equity for women. The office at NYC has grown quite a bit the past ~7 years.

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Forget Startups – Buy a Business

Martinka Consulting

Using statistics from BizBuySell.com the article stated the median price of businesses at the end of 2016 rose 8% from 2015 to $216,000. Make sure the transition agreement covers the seller being around for annual events that don’t fall within the contracted time. It’s faster, cheaper, and easier to finance.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business

Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc.

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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

However, highly visible and disruptive events like mergers and acquisitions can make cultural differences striking. Usually, due diligence is conducted by lawyers and experts in finance or accounting rather than experts in understanding and diagnosing culture. Breathing is essential to life but controlled unconsciously. Heffernan, M.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. strategic hires). strategic hires).

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business

“The venture capital model works well when the primary risk is finance risk — as the entrepreneurial team works to scale their business model — but it doesn’t work so well when technological risk and market risk coincide,” Errol Arkilic, an investor that specializes in hard tech ventures, told me.