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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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Value is Job #1

by Donald McMichael
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Ran across the post below on the Wis­con­sin Tech­nol­ogy news site WTNNews.com. It debunks (one of my favorite words) the myth that pro­fes­sional ser­vice busi­nesses need not worry about being per­ceived and treated as a com­mod­ity.  I know that this is some­thing I’ve always cir­cled back to sev­eral times over the last decade. How do you, […]

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5 Fav Business and Strategy Insights #36

by Donald McMichael
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As, always I’m look­ing to share with you qual­ity infor­ma­tion that helps increase our busi­ness devel­op­ment skills, enhance our level of busi­ness model inno­va­tion, and ulti­mately the qual­ity of our pro­fes­sional rela­tion­ships. While I never going into depth about the finds, I encour­age you check them out if they sound inter­est­ing.  Think more about your […]

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5 Fav Business and Strategy Post #30

by Donald McMichael
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photo via Don­ald McMichael While I never going into depth about the finds, I do encour­age you check them out if they sound inter­est­ing. NYT Pay­wall, Huffpo Law­suit – Symp­toms of the same mis­con­cep­tion In this post about sur­viv­abil­ity of the New York Time’s (NYT) pay­wall Chris Saad comes at it from a unique angle. […]

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MBA: Is Cultural Context Stymieing Your Business Development Effort? Are You Sure?">60 Second MBA: Is Cultural Context Stymieing Your Business Development Effort? Are You Sure?

by Donald McMichael
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  Whether we rec­og­nize it or not we live in a global mar­ket­place in which mar­kets are local. In years past it very rarely crossed our minds that we – when I say we I’m talk­ing about us as indi­vid­u­als — would be inter­act­ing with both part­ners and cus­tomers from around the world on a […]

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5 Fav Business and Strategy Post #28

by Donald McMichael
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photo via Don­ald McMichael While I never going into depth about the finds, I do encour­age you check them out if they sound inter­est­ing.   When to Gam­ble — and When to Fold? Inno­va­tion Strate­gies for a New Econ­omy With regards to inno­va­tion it’s not always best to be first. Business his­tory is lit­tered with examples […]

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5 Fav Business and Strategy Post #27

by Donald McMichael
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photo via The Advo­cacy Project   While I never going into depth about the finds, I do encour­age you check them out if they sound inter­est­ing. How to Test a Busi­ness Model Like a Sci­en­tist Whether you like it or not we base our deci­sions on the way we believe par­tic­u­lar things work. This is […]

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