The Opportunity Cost of Your Blind Spot
A great video from Wayne Rivers of the Family Business Institute on how blind spots can be extremely expensive. He provides a great graph to demonstrate the known knowns and the known unknowns without...
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Cheap loans – the alternative to selling equity?
Madeleine Harrigan of Mercer Capital explains how cheap credit is driving companies to take loans rather than sell equity, and uses that to explain why the number of venture capital exits completed in the...
Closed a business? Don’t let HMRC catch you starting another one!
Closing a business ia all right with HMRC, but if you start another one like it you could be running foul of new legislation to prevent tax avoidance. This method of avoiding tax is...
Buying A Company? Beware of Immigration Issues
Immigration: Buying Company? Don’t Let “I” in Mergers and Acquisitions Become MIA In any merger and acquisition don’t forget immigration issues ie. immigration status of employees. If a purchaser ignores or postpones immigration issues...
Consolidation Going On In the Agricultural Sector
Over the past year or so, multiple agriculture companies have attempted to consolidate through acquisitions or mergers to fight off weak fundamentals in the global agricultural sector. While the EC is launching a probe...
The Exclusive Negotiations Fallacy
Takeaway: It is a common fallacy that an exclusively negotiated deal is faster, easier and quieter than a structured process. “I’ll just sit down with him and cut a deal.” The assumption is that...
How To Become A Successful Business Broker
In today’s BizBen Vlog and Podcast Peter Siegel, MBA with BizBen chats with Tim Cunha (a San Francisco Bay Area Business Broker) about Becoming A Successful Business Broker Also, Business Transfers Agents are...
New Back-Office Tech Can Speed Up Mergers
It took Horizon Pharma PLC just six weeks to integrate the $510 million speciality drugmaker, Crealta Holdings LLC, a process that would have previously taken a year. But that was before Horizon embraced new...
Global Finance Entering “Twilight Zone” Says Macquarie
We’ve entered into a “Twilight Zone.” That’s according to Viktor Shvets, a strategist at Australian bank Macquarie in Hong Kong. In a big note out this week, Shvets set out his bearish view on...
Global Supply Chains Paralyzed After World’s 7th Largest Container Shipper Files Bankruptcy
After years of relentless decline in the Baltic Dry index… … today the largest casualty finally emerged on Wednesday when South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping, the country’s largest shipping firm and the world’s seventh-biggest...
