Feeding the Future: As the world population continues to grow, the question of how to feed the future becomes increasingly important. According to the United Nations, the global population is projected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, and 11.2 billion by the end of the century. This means that food production will need to increase by …
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Corporate Venture Capital: [Corporate investing] is dumb. I think corporations should buy companies. Investing in companies makes no sense. Don’t waste your money being a minority investor in something you don’t control. You’re a corporation! You want the asset? Buy it,” Wilson said at the CB Insights Future of Fintech Conference. Essentially Wilson was saying …
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Bondada Nagaraju | EdTech Industry Analysis: We are all influenced by our educational experiences. Sometimes with fondness, other times with anxiety, we can recall memories from kindergarten through high school, and from college to HR training at a new company. Although we might think of education as a one-room, red-brick schoolhouse, it has evolved and …
The most common reason is the wide range of data sources used by the company: the sales teams’ tracking software, CapEx files maintained by the CFO, and inventory reporting metrics from the procurement team, to name a few. When something falls out of line between all these sources, it very quickly causes critical imbalances in …
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As environmental, social, and demographic factors increasingly put pressure on traditional agrifood production technology, investors and entrepreneurs alike are turning to innovation. Having set the stage in Feeding the Future: An Overview of the Agrifood Industry, we will now go into further detail on the innovative technologies that are revolutionizing the food production business. We detail …
Earlier this year, my bank invited me to become a “member” of the credit card that I had been using for a number of years. I was intrigued. The benefits of membership were essentially what I was currently enjoying for free (cashback and no FX markup), yet to be now offered at a charge of …
The company went through several pricing structures until it settled on its last (and ultimately doomed) offering in 2017. It was offering a subscription package for $9.95 per month that allowed users to watch one movie per day. While this move created a sharp increase in subscriptions, it was also what brought the company down. …
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In the crowded conference room of a major institutional investor in late 2009, an investor asked the owner of a global real estate development company why so much of its good money had been thrown at obviously failing development projects. The answer was: Because we could. This anecdote raises a number of questions about checks and …
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Tesla shares are up ~60% over the past 12 months—performing relatively well even with the impacts of the coronavirus on the broader stock market (S&P 500 down ~11% over the same period). The market capitalization and enterprise value have grown even more due to equity issuances and share-based compensation, while a hefty CEO incentive package …
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Since 2016, I have been working as a freelance finance consultant. The intervening years have been a proving ground, offering invaluable lessons that I would like to share with others considering the same path. The finance remote work community is incredibly nascent and, at times, misunderstood. But, as a macro trend, it is a sector …
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