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Private Equity

21 Lessons From Jeff Bezos’ Annual Letters To Shareholders

Excerpted from the CBInsights article.  Read the entire piece here: https://www.cbinsights.com/research/bezos-amazon-shareholder-letters/ Since founding Amazon in 1994, Jeff Bezos has run his company according to an unconventional set of core principles: don’t worry about competitors, don’t worry about making money for shareholders, and don’t worry about the short-term. Focus on the customers, and everything else will […]

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Another Installment of “Is the Bubble About to Burst?”

I came across two interesting articles today in my daily reading, both focus on how venture capital and private equity may be hurting our economy. As the stock market continues to climb to new record highs and GDP continues strong growth (4.2% revised upward for the second quarter) I think more and more about a bubble and that bubble bursting. In my career I have been through a number of economic slowdowns and recessions. In the 1980’s it was the recession in the auto industry, in the early 1990’s it was the recession after Gulf War I, then the dotcom boom and bust of 2000, and the great financial crisis of 2008.

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How to Build a M&A Strategy

The following presentation presents a basic approach that can be used to develop a merger/acquisition strategy for your business. It is especially geared towards product managers that are interested in exploring the pragmatic aspects of M&A for their company.

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