National Mortgage News has printed an article Why Mortgage Entrepreneurs Can Struggle After a Startup Succeeds. ” A company’s evolution from startup to established business is a complex transition that requires executives to have a wide array of leadership skills,” writes Brad Finkelstein, after an interview with Rob Sher. Click the article title, to read the article in its entirety.
I had 22 venture capitalists around the table last week and the discussion was quite interesting. We focused on how early stage Israeli VCs can work with American VCs for the B round and beyond.
When a mid-market company is in need of a transfusion of cash, nothing else seems to matter. This article looks at the high cost of a cash crash. It also addresses some best practices best implemented long before trouble arises that will minimize the pain and give you a better chance to survive.
It’s the rare business that never faces a cash crunch. For most companies, whether privately held or publicly funded, the problem will arise sooner or later. Here’s how to respond when it does.
Dealing with government regulations can slow a business plan down, especially when you’re dealing with a multi-level bureaucracy. Eric McAfee, CEO of AE Biofuels, went to the top floor of the pyramid to get action.
Small publics that are struggling to raise capital can fall prey to fraud. Belinda Tsao-Nivaggioli, CEO of Avicena Group Inc (OTCBB AVGO), a lifesciences firm, illustrates how difficult it can be to detect and successfully deal with a fraudster.
When adversity hit, these leaders battled back and gave us all something to learn. Inside Alliance private working groups, we hear with some regularity jaw-dropping events that land on the chief executive’s desk. Sometimes they are simply challenging opportunities, but often they are disasters that threaten the survival of the business.
Hard times can befall a business for many reasons, of which the economy is only one. If you look objectively at the situation and find your environment in a temporary downturn, your goal is to outlast that downturn and have a strong company when good times return. Here are the tactics you use before the downturn hits.
Cash-starved CEOs need to know what motivates investors before they ask them for money. Fortunately, their motivations are simple to understand.
Investors are easy to understand. They don’t care about CEO’s dreams and plans in the broad sense. They just want what they want, and what they want is financial results. These are the questions to ask yourself before you ask for other people’s money.
Robert Sher is founding principal of CEO to CEO, a consulting firm of former chief executives that improves the leadership infrastructure of midsized companies seeking to accelerate their performance. He was chief executive of Bentley Publishing Group from 1984 to 2006 and steered the firm to become a leading player in its industry (decorative art publishing).