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MBA: Rescue Your Negotiations; 3 Commandments">60 Second MBA: Rescue Your Negotiations; 3 Commandments

by Donald McMichael
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  Today’s tip on nego­ti­at­ing comes directly from a con­ver­sa­tion I had with one of my neigh­bors Marty. It is often said that great neigh­bors are the result of a strong fence. If that’s the case then out­stand­ing neigh­bors are those who have a knack for shar­ing appro­pri­ate knowl­edge & wis­dom. There were def­i­nitely some […]

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Do you work only with the ‘Best of the Best’?

by Donald McMichael
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“Do things the long short way. Take a lot of time upfront to really make sure you’re get­ting into the rela­tion­ship with the right per­son, using the right strat­egy. As opposed to the short long way, which is doing things for instant grat­i­fi­ca­tion – jump into rela­tion­ships just because you’re excited about it… choose really […]

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How to Craft a Winning Market Entry Strategy – Joint Ventures

by Donald McMichael
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Inside this video we will intro­duce the core direct invest­ment options and focus on joint ven­tures. If the ini­ti­at­ing man­age­ment team can stand to have more of a Board role in the new ini­tia­tive you can posi­tion your orga­ni­za­tion to have lim­ited down­side expo­sure while still being able to par­tic­i­pate on the upside. Sound like […]

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New Publishing Financial Model; Pull Out The Old Number 2s

by Donald McMichael
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We got it, the print news busi­ness model of yore is gone. Prop­er­ties that can deliver more tar­geted results at a lower expense with quicker turn times have a way of pre­vail­ing. Now, Face­book is pil­ing on… but wait it is also the key to a model that can save tra­di­tional pub­lish­ing enti­ties? Look out […]

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The Key to Venture Investing, It’s Personal

by Donald McMichael
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In busi­ness, and def­i­nitely in life, it’s always been about who knows, likes, and trust you. Andrew Har­gadon has writ­ten an excel­lent piece that exam­ines (via Ben Horowitz ), the invest­ing frame­work of Ron Con­way one of the Sil­i­con Valley’s uber angels. Key points: Social cap­i­tal (con­nec­tions) are often more impor­tant than finan­cial cap­i­tal (cash) […]

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Do you see Pop-Up Strategic Alliances in your future?

by Donald McMichael
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To some of us when we hear the word pop-up our mind imme­di­ately pulls up a pic­ture of children’s books, frozen treats, or being inter­rupted while surf­ing online by a com­pletely unin­ter­est­ing pro­mo­tion. Well, you might just have to reboot your think­ing, espe­cially if you’re look­ing to lever­age unique strate­gic part­ner­ship oppor­tu­ni­ties. In NYC the […]

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