As times change, the world demands new skills. But some of them are timeless. There’s never going to be a point where clients don’t want better products, better offers. Three essential skills give an unfair advantage in business. When workers improve at them, they achieve better results. In fact, managers can predict how they will […]
Investing
Attracting Investors for Your Small Business
In order to attract the best investors for your small business, it is imperative that you learn what makes them tick. You must learn to view the world from an investor’s eyes instead of from your own. The reality is that investors are generous people, but more importantly, they are calculating businessmen. They use a […]
Choosing the Right ETF for Your Portfolio
Some of the most actively traded equity securities on Wall Street are not blue chip stocks; they are exchange-traded funds, and there are various reasons why investors love them. As their name implies, ETFs are essentially shares of investment funds managed by professional managers who oversee portfolios. ETFs are similar to mutual funds, but instead […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Private Equity
Private equity, or PE, has gained a great amount of influence in today’s financial marketplace, but few people actually understand the ins and outs of the industry. What is Private Equity? A private equity fund is a collection of investors that get together to essentially “flip” another company the same way people flip houses. […]
Private Equity in the Healthcare Industry
The healthcare industry is ripe with opportunity for private equity investments. In fact, private equity deals in healthcare in the U.S. more than doubled over the past 10 years. There are several disruptive trends that will shape the healthcare landscape in the coming years. It’s important that investors are aware of them and understand both […]
How to Handle a Merging or Acquisition of Your Company
A merger or acquisition can be an unsettling experience for business owners unfamiliar with the process. The amount of work may increase in the event of this with the time to do so decreasing, and working with employees you’ve never met prior to this change is almost always guaranteed. With all of that said, it’s […]
Hewlett-Packard May Be Getting Back Into the Acquisition Market
Hewlett-Packard, an American multinational information technology company, has not completed any business acquisitions since December of 2011 when the company bought Hiflex, a German cloud printing company. However, Meg Whitman, who became the CEO of Hewlett-Packard in October of 2011, is saying that the company could be looking into some business acquisitions in the very […]