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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. The Perfect Storm. We legalized robbing the corporate treasury.

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Private Equity Investing: Secrets of Doing it Right (Part I)

Growthink Blog

Well, in most forms of angel and early-stage private equity investing, these breakdowns flow from a misunderstanding of the power and nature of outliers. Simply put, global technological inter-connectedness drives the winning business models to heights never seen before … …and because of this, there are a lot fewer of them.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

Large private equity funds like KKR can afford to pursue a consulting model ( Capstone ), typically with associated fees, but that doesn’t normally make economic sense for a VC. C ustomer Development – We have relationships with hundreds of large global corporations. We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees.

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Export Online Without Frontiers: A Global Map of B2B Marketplaces

The Startup Magazine

That could be a standard sale contract, i.e. buy and sell single items or batches, or a partnership agreement, i.e. contract manufacturing, sales agency, or distribution agreement. The largest ones are Alibaba, Global Sources, DHgate, EC21, Tradekey, Asia Trade Hub, and go4WorldBusiness. B2B Marketplaces in Asia.

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Startup Business Investments Around The World

YoungUpstarts

For what they bring to the table, startups are indeed changing the economic landscape in ways that extend to job generation, innovation of products and services, and equal distribution of opportunities among businesses. Private Equity Firms. Things You Need to Know About Starting a Startup Business.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. 1) Manage the firm .

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Eight Ways To Become A More Effective Leader

YoungUpstarts

by Harrison Rogers , Founder and CEO of HJR Global. When you distribute work effectively, you increase your own productivity while developing your employees’ skill sets. Harrison Rogers is Founder and CEO of HJR Global , a private equity company that has increased at least 200% every year for the past 4 years.