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Coping With Late Payment – Managing Asia’s Slow Payers

YoungUpstarts

by Anthony Coundouris , trade finance evangelist for ApexPeak. credit terms), a rise in daily sales outstanding, or DSO, affects the cash flows of local businesses. DSO is the average number of days that a company takes to collect revenue after a sale has been made. Alternative financing.

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InoxCVA IPO: India’s cryogenic tank maker fully subscribed on first day

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crore (Rs 14593200000, or $175,110,373.74) with the IPO, with the company itself receiving nothing for the sales. Though globally, we are the third largest by volume at Chart of the US and the Chinese state-owned firm CIMC, from a revenue perspective we are too small.”

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How R&D Investment Grows Your Business

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Investment in research and development, in turn, means allocating and using finances to support this process with technology solutions, scientific and tech talents, equipment, etc. These are primarily China, the US, Japan, and Germany. However, as a rule, the companies invest 3-7,5% of their revenue in R&D.

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Why Defense Could Now Be a Market for Startups

Steve Blank

Dozens of outreach programs across the military now offer quick revenue to early-stage companies. This emerging opportunity reflects the urgency of keeping pace with rivals like China and Russia, who are furiously integrating commercial technologies like AI, quantum computing, and unmanned systems into their armed forces.

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Why Companies are Not Startups

Steve Blank

Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., Staff functions in finance, human resources, legal departments and business units developed Key Performance Indicators, processes, procedures and goals to measure, control and execute. This is a big idea.

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Leadership and CEO Succession

Reid Hoffman

A company has many different functional areas–sales, marketing, product, engineering, finance, operations, and so on. Many default to sales (because that’s what drives revenue) or product (because that’s what customers buy). But for some companies the secret sauce might be engineering or finance.

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How To Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act

Steve Blank

Your revenue plans are no longer valid. What’s your monthly cash burn at your new low revenue level? Sales pipeline/forecast. The CEO should dial through as many of the largest existing customers to get a firsthand understanding of the magnitude of any revenue shortfall. The ripple effects won’t be obvious at first.