Corporate Development

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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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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