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Shared Services Get Strategic

Chief Executive

Having finished much of what he’d set out to do, Barani is doing it again, this time at Fresenius Medical Care, a publicly traded provider of kidney dialysis treatments that tallies more than 130,000 employees in 155 countries and generates approximately $20 billion in annual revenues. billion in 2021 revenue. “In One Step at a Time.

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Ask for the Cash: Convince Your Customers to Pay You in Advance

Growth Institute

The pay-in-advance model is one of the five customer-funded models successful companies commonly use to scale up without needing to rely on investors. By getting his customers to pay in advance, Dell completely changed his company’s cash flow, and spurred its ability to scale rapidly. Fast-forward to 2013, and Threadless was serving 2.5

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CEO Confidence Falls To Decade Low, But Few Predict Recession

Chief Executive

It is the lowest level it’s been since January 2013, on the heels of the “Fiscal Cliff” drama in Washington and ahead of further debt ceiling negotiations. . The Year Ahead The proportion of CEOs forecasting increases in profits and revenues over the coming year continued to fall in June, now down 21 and 10 percent respectively.

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Very Cheap, Then Very Expensive (On Job Titles)

Ed Batista

A theme in my work with founder/CEOs is what I call "the judicious imposition of structure," which includes the need to clarify who's responsible for what and how decisions get made as the organization scales. [5] They offset other constraints. Most early-stage organizations are constrained in a number of predictable ways. 8] Rajaram, 2017.

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How To Grow Your Team & Company Without Losing Them: An Interview With Rand Fishkin

15Five

I interviewed Rand recently about growing a subscription SaaS business, finding employees to contribute to Moz’s epic culture during their rapid growth, and the importance of transparency in the workplace… Q: Moz grew in revenue very quickly over the first 7 years. That depends. Moz is a self-service SaaS business.

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Inside the 6 Hypotheses that Doubled Patreon’s Activation Success

Brian Balfour

Since it was founded in 2013, the company has reached 1 million monthly active Patrons, paying an average of $12 a month , and 50,000 active creators. In a SAAS funnel, onboarding success affects all other metrics in the funnel, from retention to referral, and exerts a disproportionate effect on recurring revenue.

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Autonomous Vehicles: A Winding Road Toward US Adoption

UVA Darden

Second, the lack of federal regulation and the variation across state regulations create a challenge for companies trying to design and deploy AVs on a large scale. A McKinsey study forecasts that Level 4 autonomous driving systems for passenger cars could generate $170 billion to $230 billion in revenue by 2035.