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Latest Podcasts: Leading for Growth

Force Management

We even shared a special episode featuring three guests who offered unique perspectives from outside investors on what drives growth across their portfolios. There's no doubt that the key to unlocking growth is a combination of great interpersonal leadership and collaboration, as well as solid execution and data-driven business decisions.

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Startup Funding: What It Is, How It Works, & 5 Tips for Landing It

Hubspot Sales

The CEO searches for investors, loans, grants, and other forms of funding to help their business grow. In those cases, investors exchange capital for equity — or partial ownership — of the company. If founders don't want to involve outside investors, they can get capital through small business loans. The downside?

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What Are Decision Support Systems And How They Work

Customer Think

Image Source As a business leader, how many decisions do you have to make in a day? With employees to manage, customers to care for, and investors to answer to, you probably have to make more decisions than you think. Some decisions will come easily to you, of course, and your own experience will help […].

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Achieving rapid growth through word of mouth with Immad Akhund

Zendesk

Encourage your investors to talk about you on social media Mercury was founded to provide banking for startups. Mercury had 60 angel investors at the seed round, and Akhund asked all of them to tweet about the company. He says, “One of the things to do to drive marketing is to do the things that don’t make you money.

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Be more strategic: Top-down or bottom-up, marketing and sales integration and property marketing

Red Star Kim

However, top-down analysis and decision-making ensures that the various units are working towards the firm’s goals (a “one-firm approach”) and making tough choices between competing interests. And where people have developed their own strategy they are more likely to work towards its successful implementation.

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THE 10-K FILING: THE MOST IMPORTANT DOCUMENT THAT SAMS NEVER READ

Strategic Account Management Association

They make great paperweights, but if asked about specific details, most of us might offer an uneasy grin, knowing that we have companions-in-arms, equally guilty of shirking that responsibility to read altogether. So why on earth do we still bother with documents numbering hundreds of pages, sans picture and color?

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Limited Partnerships: Their Structure, Value, & Practical Examples

Hubspot Sales

A limited partnership is a business model that can connect bold, enterprising entrepreneurs with savvy investors looking to finance lucrative, low-touch business ventures. Investors are often drawn to their "lower stakes" liability model and "pass-through" taxation structure. Let's dive in.