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How Smart Startups Survive Investor Due Diligence

Startup Professionals Musings

This is the mysterious and dreaded due diligence process, which can kill the whole deal. Some entrepreneurs do very little to prepare for due diligence, assuming all the talking has already been done, and the business plan and results to-date tell the right story. My best advice is to stick to the middle ground.

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Top 10 Emerging Marketplaces for Chemical Industry in 2022

ReadWriteStart

There are emerging marketplaces in the chemical industry seeking to increase sales in 2022 by helping both the chemical buyers and sellers to be able to find each other. The Chemical Industry has had a Drastic Change Due to COVID-19. The chemical industry is in significant flux due to Covid 19. Obtain a competitive advantage.

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Must-Haves For Your Online Store In 2015

YoungUpstarts

These days it is far easier to build up a top-ranked and profitable shop with little effort; it is now possible to add a dozen features or implement attractive templates without a problem at all due to the wide range of technology platforms available out there. Product reviews. Responsive design. User Engagement.

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Why Your Next Startup Should Be In Insurance

YoungUpstarts

Insurance is the next big industry due for a disruption. But wait, before letting your eyes glaze over or clicking out of here entirely, give me just two minutes of your time to explain – because the opportunity is big and the technology is really cool. The technology existed; it just needed to be deployed for an insurance purpose.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 Or they may even put the entire company up for sale.

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As Year-End Approaches, 4 Things Businesses Should Do Now To Ensure 2015 Success

YoungUpstarts

Review What Worked. Executives should review the past year’s goals to discriminate which goals were reached and which were not reached. In addition, while large sales may be a “home run,” encourage smaller “base hit” sales, which can happen everyday. Here are five things to look at: 1.

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Autonomous Vehicles: Can You Get There From Here? (Part 2)

Agile VC

” In my first post earlier this summer, I highlighted the fact that we’re still a ways off from truly autonomous vehicles, despite many decades of technological advances to assist drivers. FWIW, the first true competitor to Tesla’s Auto-Pilot ADAS system, Mercedes “DrivePilot”, has gotten terrible reviews.