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Power Equations - Tech Capital Partners Blog
Recently I was asked to speak at a TechAlliance / Ernst & Young event in London, Ontario about valuations. I was speaking after Bill Armitage who was clear and understandable so there seemed little point in my getting in an arm wrestle over the finer points of valuation theory. I thought I would try to address some of the questions that I perceived these and many other entrepreneurs have been asking these days: 1. How do I find money? and 2. How do I get the best price…
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Managing A Portfolio of Growth Options: The Strategic Tradeoffs Between Growth and Risk
Author: Donald Baer and Bill Liabotis
There is no single path to growth. Any growth-focused enterprise owes it to its stakeholders to think out a series of alternative growth options and then critically assess each with respect to market dynamics, profitability potential, and risk. Focusing on a single growth option in isolation can lead to sub-optimal results and possibly disaster.
How to strategically manage the tradeoffs between growth and risk in a portfolio of growth options is the focus of this article. In the article, we develop a framework to assist leadership teams in determining the relative merits of alternative growth options and identifying those options with the strongest probability of success. The framework critically assesses each option with respect to:...
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Where Have You Gone, Joe Dimaggio? Just What is Really Great Business Performance
Author: Michael E. Raynor and Mumtaz Ahmed and Andrew D. Henderson
Are all the companies that supposedly go from good to great really that great after all? Or, are they merely one of a pack of pretty average performers? As these authors state, those really great companies may only be putatively great, successful but only in a middling sort of way. The authors studied the popular literature on “great” performing companies and came to their own, original conclusions…