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Figuring Out Your Billing Rate as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Even if your pricing strategy is to use a fixed price or to use a hybrid approach (part fixed, part variable), use your base rate as the building block and to sanity check your package pricing. Solopreneurs who come from “name” firms like PwC or McKinsey can charge more than those who come from industry.

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Role of US Business Consultants for Foreign Companies

Business Consulting Agency

Market Entry Strategy and Planning US business consultants bring extensive knowledge of the US market, industry trends, consumer behavior, and competitive landscape. They provide valuable insights into market dynamics, pricing strategies, product positioning, and brand differentiation.

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An Insight into Special Services: Transfer Pricing

Tom Spencer

Firms do this mainly by searching for companies with similar profiles, and benchmarking prices against those used in the broader market. A showcase example are royalties paid for patents and other intellectual property. This is the strategy followed by Apple.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

Think of platforms and networks in our digital age as the equivalent of electricity and motors in the industrial age. Intellectual capital. For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. After all, there is a multibillion-dollar industry focused on customer relationship management.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

First, directors face a real challenge in making sure that protection and alignment of key governance and risk management issues doesn’t crowd out equally important dialogue around strategy and operations. I’m not against benchmarking and norming. Benchmarking and norming won’t always lead to the right decision.

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Google Strikes Back in Patent Wars; Decades Long Litigation; Return to the Beginning Fistfight

MishTalk

The patent race among industry leaders has threatened to overwhelm smaller technology companies, forcing them to mount their own acquisition campaigns to defend themselves. However, the sheer quantity of patent holdings also helps deter attack and has led to an intellectual property arms race.