Tag: business
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How to expand successfully
“I wish I’d gone into the business of hand sanitiser,” said the owner of the paint shop recently to me. I slow-nodded, acknowledging the fast money companies made selling products that met demand fueled by covid. But entrepreneurs, don’t be wooed by risky, quick-profit expansion opportunities. Those who made money in the hand sanitiser exponential…
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To post or not to post? How much of your brilliance should you share?
As a business, how circumspect should you be about posting online your brilliant discoveries, unique looks and ideas? Hatta Byng, the editor of House & Garden magazine, advises you keep your most stylish rooms or best finds to yourself to avoid them becoming: “less desirable and far too of the moment” – a veiled reference…
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Equity allocations. How do you keep it fair?
The allocation of equity in start-ups and scale-ups is fraught with issues and so I was interested to read Mike Moyer’s book ‘Slicing Pie’ to find out his take on this thorny problem. Mike’s philosophy that is “a person’s % share of the rewards should always equal that person’s % share of what’s put at risk…
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The Greatness of Price
How good are you at pricing? How often do you think about how you are pricing your goods and services? Probably not often enough and certainly not as often as is best practice. If you haven’t noticed, pricing has got a whole lot more sophisticated and moved on immeasurably from the relative simplicity of train…
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Are you an effective NonExec Director?
Do you have what it takes to manage a CEO like Camila Batmanghelidjh? The article in today’s Guardian,”Camila’s Kids Company: The Inside Story review – both damning and vindicatory” by Sam Wollaston accurately summarises my feelings on watching the fascinating BBC programme last evening about Camila Batmanghelidjh and Kids Company. It was a extraordinary exposé and…
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David Bowie: the Great Innovator. Should businesses follow his example?
Looking back at David Bowie’s career I’m struck by his astonishing ability to be constantly and consistently ahead of trends. It isn’t always clear if he was the cause of certain trends or just an early adopter thereof, but what we do know is he made genres of music, used technologies and wore fashions before…
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