Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! level, title, company size, industry, etc.)

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! level, title, company size, industry, etc.)

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BCG

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Article Thursday, December 15, 2016 Life insurers are feeling the squeeze. Yet that income stream is weakening, as low-risk investment yields dip toward 0% and central banks continue to drain the bond markets. The industry’s overall business growth has stalled, and investment income has become a critical mainstay.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Many an economics and finance course later, I see that the layers of complexities to the 2008 financial crisis are innumerable. I’ll try to summarize some of the causes and historical contexts in this article to provide a greater-than-Big-Short level analysis. Money became stagnant, and cross-border capital flows dramatically reduced.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Power of Unity Firms need real-time insights into the entire business – finance, project accounting, sales, everything – otherwise multiple versions of the truth will start showing up in budgets, estimates, and forecasts. It prevents you from generating reliable cash-flow forecasts and makes it incredibly difficult to manage resources.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

Also, as we explained in an earlier article , we believe that being an established CEO of a small firm involves much less angst than being a senior member of a consulting, investment banking, or private equity firm. So, we begin by assuming that the traditional path offers cash compensation equal to the average starting salary. (It

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 7, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation? Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market. Automatic Earth.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. In a market like social media, a firm’s success can depend on the winner-take-all profits that come from market leadership.).

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. New digital entrants have spotted the market opportunity created by these dynamics, and the result is an explosion in online lending to SMEs from fintech startups. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Despite the need for credit to finance recovery, disasters can also constrain the capacity of lenders to supply it because so many households and businesses are affected at once. Challenge risk financing conventions. Businesses likely need new forms of risk financing.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2017

One of the most stressful things about being self-employed is managing your cash flow. “Before you respond to a request or knock on a door in a marketing capacity, you need to establish that the company can pay you and will pay you,” he says. This information helps you better manage your monthly cash flow.

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

Earlier today, reader Charles asked me what I thought about an article on ZeroHedge entitled " Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse? " The BIS slam, coupled with a recent stock market selloff, brought up debate on a " controlled collapse ". Increased risk-taking also manifested itself in other credit market segments.

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

Chicago finances are even worse than I thought which is saying quite a bit because I have written about the sorry state of Chicago finances on numerous occasion. Many of these uses of bond proceeds are not eligible for tax-exempt financing under the federal tax code." Who Is Kristi Culpepper? You should be.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

A comprehensive survey of financial executives concluded that “repurchases are made out of the residual cash flow after investment spending.” Fewer companies would go public, instead financing themselves by taking on more debt. The evidence suggests this view is more accurate. It takes no skill to simply spend money.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Firms are realizing what microfinance has known for a while: Local self-policing groups, or village headmen who police honor codes, can hedge cash flows in far-flung places. Toyota and Yamaha have found motorbike customers through such social group structures.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

Horowitz suggests asking your fellow freelancers what the market is like for your skills and what their rates are. When you’ve got the above logistics sorted out, it’s time to “transition to the active marketing stage,” says Horowitz. “It takes time to get a consistent cash flow going.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

They argue that the market has become saturated because of the barriers to entry are low (do we really need 53 subscription box companies offering sex products?), Moving from “top-down” valuation to “bottom-up” The default valuation method for finance professionals is “top-down” in nature.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2016

Leaders… Make sure they have a market/service fit before investing in on-boarding customers. For finance, short-term revenue gains do not justify poor treatment of members. To serve as a marketing channel. But for every LinkedIn or Amazon that’s pulling it off, there are dozens who have failed.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Among the firms we identified as focused on the long term, average revenue and earnings growth were 47% and 36% higher, respectively, by 2014, and market capitalization grew faster as well. public market capitalization over this period. The differences were dramatic. What We Actually Measured — and the Limits of Our Knowledge.

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MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2015

BitGold just completed a financing for C$18 million, which included some top name institutional investors. After this financing, BitGold’s two main owners are the shareholders of GoldMoney and Roy Sebag, whose understanding of gold is as deep as anyone I have ever met. Attempts by others have failed or languished.

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