Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

If you buy a property for 20% down, with the bank financing the rest, and it goes up in value by just 10%, your profit is 50%. (I’ll If you have a factory and can buy a machine that increases productivity, the money you borrow to pay for that machine creates enough profit that you get to do it again. Debt is a financial miracle.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 12, 2020

After a decade of growing organic herbs and vegetables and raising farm animals, a family-run New England farm decided to pivot and produce high-end functional CBD products. This pivot required the organization to change its business model from wholesale agricultural commodities to the production and retail of consumer goods.

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

Second question: is there similar activity with larger companies, small, mid-sized, and lower middle market firms? Barlow research – Two-thirds of lower middle-market business owners are expected to retire. Similar firm in a different market. Synergistic product line firm. Contract manufacturer (of your product).

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Business Consulting Agency

AUGUST 30, 2022

Sales/Marketing. Product Development. Capital/Financing. Cash Flow Management. Business consulting topics covered include, but are not limited to, the following are as follows: Business Consulting Topics. Retail/E-Commerce. Corporate Filing. Employee relations/Human Resources. Vendor Relations. Labor Unions.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2023

This idea has been echoed by some of the most influential figures in the business and finance world, including Professor Michael Porter, Michael Lewis, and Warren Buffett. As a result, the value of many of these securities plummeted to zero when the housing market crashed. They also advocate for environmental issues.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 21, 2018

During one of my internships I worked on a due diligence project, which involved conducting market research to help a PE firm decide whether to acquire a major stake in a joint venture owned by one of the largest telecom companies in Asia. Financial due diligence involves a lot of financial modelling ( DCF , LBO , NAV ) and deal structuring.

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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! AND their psychographics (e.g.,

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BCG

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Yet that income stream is weakening, as low-risk investment yields dip toward 0% and central banks continue to drain the bond markets. Increasingly, managers find themselves in sometimes heated debate, pitted against their companies’ actuaries, product managers, risk and finance executives, and boards of directors.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Energy production is extremely capital intense, and often accompanied by negative free cash flow. CJES), postponed financings this month as sentiment soured. oil production which requires abundant capital,” Lafakis said. markets as unprecedented Fed stimulus fuels a hunt for yield. cents since September.

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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! AND their psychographics (e.g.,

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Technology combined with data is a matter of life and death for professional services firms where the “product” is a combination of insights and expertise. It prevents you from generating reliable cash-flow forecasts and makes it incredibly difficult to manage resources. Market trends? The bottom line? Retain talent?

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MishTalk

MAY 14, 2014

China’s real estate market correction — some economists are even calling it the popping of a bubble — is partly the result of a deliberate decision by the country’s leaders in Beijing. Economic data released on Tuesday also included a deceleration in industrial production, with growth in steel and cement output slowing to a crawl.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

First, small businesses tend to be more productive than larger ones and may be especially unlikely to invest in risk management that diverts resources from production. Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Challenge risk financing conventions. Businesses likely need new forms of risk financing.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. Recent analysis by Bain and SAP found that only 7% of bank credit products could be handled digitally from end to end. They estimate that online lenders will constitute nearly a fifth of the total SME lending market by then.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Here are three things that Western investors should want from African entrepreneurs: a focus on the top of the pyramid, control over factors of production, and innovation in distribution rather than in products. Factors of Production. Today his Nice Rice Mill processes 70% of the region’s rice production.

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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. The company’s first revenues indicate the acceptance of its product or services by customers. What caused this slump?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” The UK Government is launching an inquiry into buybacks , due to concerns that they “may be crowding out the allocation of surplus capital to productive investment.” A comprehensive survey of financial executives concluded that “repurchases are made out of the residual cash flow after investment spending.”

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

The BIS slam, coupled with a recent stock market selloff, brought up debate on a " controlled collapse ". Over the past few years, non-financial corporations in a number of EMEs have borrowed heavily through their foreign affiliates in the capital markets, with the debt denominated mainly in foreign currency.

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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. For product development, the offering needs to evolve constantly to meet members’ needs – changes only every year or two won’t cut it.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. Philippe Marion/Getty Images. The subscription business model is booming.

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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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