Run Your Private Company Like It’s Public Small businesses often operate as if their sole purpose is to fund the owner’s lifestyle, but the most valuable companies are run with financial rigor. You may be years from wanting to sell, but starting to formalize your operations now will help...
Fund managers all emphasize the need for buy-in from the top. If a CEO champions venture activity, it increases the chances that business units, whose main job is executing on the current business, give time and energy to portfolio investees. Corporate venturing can be a significant boon to ...
Interest in initial coin offerings (ICOs), the process of issuing cryptocurrency assets as a means of raising capital, is also growing in trade finance, as companies look for alternative ways to fund supply chains and raise capital. Simpler and faster than traditional cross-border fundraising, rem...