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Driving Sustainable Growth at an Inflection Point

Brimstone Consulting

CASE STUDY. Brimstone worked side-by-side with an early-stage consumer goods organization to pursue its vision, build a strategic plan, develop roles and operating mechanisms, and to drive sustainable growth at a challenging inflection point. By: Brimstone In Case Studies Posted August 2, 2019 Reigniting Leadership.

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What MoviePass Can Teach Us About the Future of Subscription Businesses

Harvard Business

Since I last wrote about the company , theater operator AMC entered the subscription market, to early success , and MoviePass took out and paid back a $6 million emergency loan and flip-flopped both its pricing and its product. This case is also a good reminder that the United States has local profit pools.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

“The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. Related Video. Go it alone.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

Likewise, customer retention strongly influences the stability of revenues, because it dictates whether cash flows from new customers are like annuities that pay into perpetuity or upfront one-shot payments that must be replaced in the next period to avoid losing ground. Case Study: Blue Apron.