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The bar for competing successfully in China keeps rising. There’s the trade war, as well as steps to protect the US’s intellectual property, plus a tightening on the availability of visas for Chinese students and scientists coming to American universities and companies, and a campaign to pressure countries not to...

Everybody in business has a pitch. The goal is to deliver your pitch in the time taken for an average elevator ride being about thirty seconds. Whilst many pitches are refined by trial and error over time and serve their purpose well enough, in typical entrepreneurial fashion I have my...

Cybersecurity companies are often ideal candidates for international expansion. As digital businesses, building a customer base outside of the U.S. often comes with the territory and is part of the business plan from day one. And the impact of successful international growth can be transformative: not only can a geographically...

The sky is falling. The stock market is in total upheaval. Schools are closing. Major sporting events, political rallies, conventions, and meetings are being canceled. Airlines are cutting flights. Hotels and cruise ships are virtually empty. And as a sure sign of the apocalypse, Ireland has canceled their annual St....

Bhanu Choudhrie is the Founder and Director of Alpha Aviation Group Ltd., a rapidly growing subsidiary of his private equity firm C & C Alpha Group. Alpha Aviation Group is the premier global provider of pilot training for airlines, as well as the only flight school in the Philippines that’s...

Families and friendships were tested and possibly in some cases broken as we marched through the holidays and into the New Year. We’re under pressure from even more divisive politics ahead. Now pour on top of that fear of the unknown and the specter of coronavirus looming over our communities...

The Brexit negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom started the 2nd March, though this will also create pressure to push for transatlantic free trade deals. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that he wants a free trade deal between the European Union and the United Kingdom...

Capital deployment decisions are among the most important strategic choices facing managements and boards. However, it can often be difficult to choose between investing organically or acquisitively in the business versus paying down debt, building cash or distributing capital via dividends or share repurchases. Some companies are better off distributing...

One thing about Nikolaus Kimla is undeniable: he intrinsically understands sales, and as the Founder and CEO of Pipeliner CRM, a customer relationship management platform purpose-built for salespeople, and its associated media channel SalesPOP!, it makes sense. The Vienna-born, California-based entrepreneur discovered his aptitude for sales early in life, starting...

In the fall of 2017 I traveled to Kiev to meet and interview two of the last remaining survivors of the Ukrainian Holodomor. Holodomor means “forced starvation,” and defines a period in the early 1930s during which the Soviet Communist Party intentionally killed millions of Ukrainian peasants by sequestering them...