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9 Common Things that Stunt Business Growth (and What to Do about Them)

ConversionXL

Before we get to that though, I asked my LinkedIn connections about the #1 thing holding back their companies. It’s clear from the 80+ answers that many things hold companies back, so consider these nine a starting point in your quest to improve your business. (As So, what can companies do about it?

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What Does it Mean to Be a Socially Responsible Nonprofit Board?

Board Effect

In the interest of providing a frame of reference, corporate social responsibility (CSR) Is a business model that holds companies responsible for social issues. Employee turnover. Employee wellness. They are also interested in partnering with nonprofit organizations that are like-minded. Unequal compensation rates.

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I‘ve founded and run marketing agencies for 20 years, I’m running one now, and yet I hate the agency industry. Here’s what I’m doing about it.

Jeff Hilimire

Clients also can start/stop relationships for all sorts of reasons, including good ones like the agency isn’t producing excellent work, but also bad ones such as a new leader comes in and wants to shake things up by cutting all agency partners, or the CEO had dinner with a person and now suddenly, that guy’s agency is forced in. Seasonality.

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The Demise of the Mad Men

Seeing Both Sides

Last year, I blogged about how Madison Avenue was going tech ("Revenge of the Nerds", I called it). Advertising innovation is coming from technology-driven giants -- like Google, Microsoft and now even Apple -- as well as start-up companies that are nibbling away at the value-chain, including many of our own portfolio companies (e.g.,

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Cap Tables Explained: Guide to Understanding Cap Tables

Board Effect

A company’s investors and legal counsel both have a hand in monitoring and maintaining a reliable ledger of equity division. There’s the owner—maybe a partner or two—but unless employees are offered equity from the get-go, there’s typically not a whole lot of dilution. Why do cap tables matter? How are cap tables used?