Finance

Business [Re]Ignition: The 7 Rock Solid Elements of Execution Business Model Innovation – Part 1

by Donald McMichael
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In any high stakes ven­ture it is vital, whether for your­self or a client, to have a sus­tain­able edge. War­ren Buf­fet calls it a Durable Com­pet­i­tive Advan­tage and Michael Porter refers to it as a Com­pet­i­tive Advan­tage. Regard­less of the phras­ing, the con­cept is the same. Never move into, or stay in, a space where you […]

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The Profitability Paradox – Cash Flow Projections Why Successful Businesses Almost Always Rely on them First

by Donald McMichael
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photo via 401k’s on Flickr.com All to often small busi­nesses obsess on how much money they’re going to make, the total num­ber of clients, and how much profit they’ll gen­er­ate. What they lose sight of is the impor­tant third leg of the busi­ness stool, day-to-day cash flow; doing so almost always guar­an­tees major prob­lems whether […]

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5 Cornerstones of a Powerfully Successful Business Development Pitch

by Donald McMichael
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photo:  Aladair Mid­dle­ton via Flickr You live and die by the pitch in busi­ness.   Pitch­ing is not a sci­ence nor an art & sci­ence it’s pure art. You have mere min­utes to impress your audi­ence and with suc­cess or fail­ure hang­ing in the bal­ance a tight rel­e­vant pre­sen­ta­tion is key.    There are tons of […]

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Same as it Ever Was… But Worse

by Donald McMichael
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We’re not going to nail it. Noth­ing could be truer in this day and age when it come to busi­ness plan­ning. Under­tak­ing exer­cises in long-range plan­ning and fore­cast­ing assumes that the busi­ness’ con­tex­tual envi­ron­ment has a level of sta­bil­ity and cer­tainty… well at least enough to make us feel com­fort­able that we can range the […]

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What to Go Public But Can’t: This Method is Helping Growth-Stage Concerns Experience a Liquidity Event

by Donald McMichael
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photo via Flickr Topeka & Shawnee County Pub­lic Library With­out a $500 mil­lion val­u­a­tion any busi­ness con­cern look­ing to go pub­lic is being forced to cool their jets. Numer­ous sys­tem­atic changes, dri­ven pri­mar­ily by the con­sol­i­da­tion of insti­tu­tional investors and the sub­se­quent emer­gence of multi-billion dol­lar mutual funds, has resulted in the stock mar­ket no […]

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