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MIHIR DESAIR is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. His research is regularly cited in major publications, and he has testified several times before Congress.

The new M&A bible.

Few actions can change the value of a company--and its competitive future--as quickly and dramatically as an acquisition. Yet most companies fail to create shareholder value from these deals, and in many cases they destroy it. It doesn't have to be this way.

In The Synergy Solution, Deloitte's Mark Sirower and Jeff Weirens show acquirers how to develop and execute an M&A strategy--end to end--that not only avoids the pitfalls that so many companies fall into but also creates real, long-term shareholder value. This strategy includes how to:

• Become a prepared "always on" acquirer
• Test the investment thesis and DCF valuation of a deal
• Plan for a successful Announcement Day, and properly communicate synergy promises to investors and other stakeholders
• Realize those promised synergies through integration planning and post-close execution
• Manage change and build a new, combined organization

Sirower and Weirens provide invaluable background to those considering M&A, laying out the issues they have to consider, how to analyze them, and how to plan and execute the deal effectively. They also show those who have already started the process of M&A how to maximize their chances of success.

There's an art and a science to getting mergers and acquisitions right, and this powerful book provides the insights and strategies acquirers need to find success at every stage of an often complex and perilous process.

About the Author

Mark Sirower is a US leader in Deloitte's M&A and Restructuring practice, which he joined in 2008 to launch the M&A Strategy practice. Sirower has advised senior executive teams on hundreds of transactions over the past twenty-five years. Previously, he built the Transaction Services Strategy Group at PricewaterhouseCoopers and was global leader of the M&A practice at the Boston Consulting Group in New York, where he developed the BCG corporate development framework and innovative approaches to crafting and executing M&A strategy. Before joining BCG, he taught Mergers and Acquisitions at the Wharton School. He is the author of the M&A bestseller, The Synergy Trap.

Jeff Weirens is the Leader of Deloitte's Global Financial Advisory Business and serves on Deloitte's Global Executive Committee. For more than twenty-five years, Weirens has advised clients on several of the world's most iconic acquisitions and divestitures. He has served in multiple leadership roles, including Deloitte Consulting's Management Committee, the Energy, Resources, and Industrials practice, and the Mergers, Acquisitions & Restructuring practice. He is a trusted adviser to senior client executive teams and boards of directors, has advised on hundreds of acquisitions, divestitures, and transformations, and is an expert on postmerger integration and divestitures.

You can find the authors on LinkedIn.

"An incisive history of the venture-capital industry."
--New Yorker

It can't have escaped anyone's attention: Bitcoin has taken heavy blows. Like any financial market, Bitcoin trading is led by emotion.

Or rather, the cryptocurrency investors are led by emotion and Elon Musk's recent tweets are causing a lot of FUD ("Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt").

Completely unexpected, he attacked Bitcoin on fossil-fueled energy consumption and carbon footprint. Despite the fact that this story has been debunked many times, people are very sensitive to this, and when such a big celebrity shouts something, most people believe it immediately and fear gathers around. What does this mean for the Bitcoin price and other cryptocurrencies?

Stellar Moon Publishing compiled this book to offer an insight into the best trading tips and strategies for 2021 & 2022. This book has been written by a group of cryptocurrency experts. With this book, we strive to provide you with the best-curated information on cryptocurrency trading and investments.

In this book you will learn:

• Proper risk assessment for investment opportunities
• The principles of short term and long term investments
• Profitable strategies for cryptocurrency trading
• Useful and practical tips to make a profit quickly
• The current & future crypto market perspective

If you want to get a head start with crypto investment and trading, grab your copy now!

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While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out.

Value explores the core of corporate finance without getting bogged down in numbers and is intended to give managers an accessible guide to both the foundations and applications of corporate finance. Filled with in-depth insights from experts at McKinsey & Company, this reliable resource takes a much more qualitative approach to what the authors consider a lost art.

• Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance
• Effectively applies the theory of value creation to our economy
• Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management
• Addresses how to ensure your company has the right governance, performance measurement, and internal discussions to encourage value-creating decisions

A perfect companion to the Fifth Edition of Valuation, this book will put the various issues associated with corporate finance in perspective.

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McKINSEY & COMPANY is a global management consulting firm that helps leading private, public, and social-sector organizations make distinctive, lasting, and substantial performance improvements. With consultants deployed from more than ninety offices in over fifty countries, McKinsey advises companies on strategic, operational, organizational, financial, and technological issues.

TIM KOLLER leads the firm's research activities in valuation and capital market issues. He advises clients globally on corporate strategy, capital markets, M&A, and value-based management. Tim is a coauthor of Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies.

RICHARD DOBBS is a director of the McKinsey Global Institute, the firm's business and economics research arm. He advises Korean and other Asian companies and governments on strategy, economics, and M&A issues. Richard is an associate fellow of University of Oxford's Saïd Business School.

BILL HUYETT advises clients in healthcare and other technology-intensive industries on corporate strategy, M&A, product development and commercialization, and corporate leadership. Bill is active on several not-for-profit boards in basic life sciences research.

Think big, buy small.

Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: You can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards--as well as personal and professional fulfillment. Leading a firm means you can be your own boss, put your executive skills to work, fashion a company environment that meets your own needs, and profit directly from your success.

But finding the right business to buy and closing the deal isn't always easy. In the HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business, Harvard Business School professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff help you:

• Determine if this path is right for you
• Raise capital for your acquisition
• Find and evaluate the right prospects
• Avoid the pitfalls that could derail your search
• Understand why a dull business might be the best investment
• Negotiate a potential deal with the seller
• Avoid deals that fall through at the last minute

About the Author

Richard S. Ruback is the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance at Harvard Business School. He has taught a variety of corporate finance courses throughout his career. Over the last few years, he and Royce Yudkoff have been developing and teaching a new second-year case course, "The Financial Management of Smaller Firms," and a field course, "Entrepreneurship through Acquisition," both of which are focused on the entrepreneurial acquisition of smaller firms. Ruback earned his PhD in business administration at the University of Rochester in 1980 and taught at the MIT Sloan School of Management before joining the HBS faculty as a visiting professor in 1987. He was appointed associate professor in 1988 and full professor in 1989. Ruback has served as an editor for the Journal of Financial Economics and is the author of numerous articles on corporate finance and valuation. Ruback has served as a consultant to corporations on corporate finance issues and has acted as an independent advisor to outside directors. He also served as an expert witness on valuation and security issues.

Royce Yudkoff is a Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. Yudkoff cofounded and served for over 20 years as Managing Partner of ABRY Partners, a leading private equity investment firm. During his tenure the firm completed hundreds of acquisitions across various industries. Yudkoff also served on numerous corporate boards. Yudkoff earned his MBA at Harvard Business School, graduating as a Baker Scholar, and his AB at Dartmouth College, graduating as a Rufus Choate Scholar.

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ANDREW J. SHERMAN is a partner at the law firm Seyfarth Shaw, where he advises both Fortune 500 and emerging growth companies. A top-rated adjunct professor in the MBA program at the University of Maryland and at Georgetown University Law School, he is the author of Raising Capital and Franchising & Licensing.

About the Author
Aswath Damodaran is the Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education and professor of finance at New York University's Stern School of Business. He is the author of Applied Corporate Finance, Fourth Edition (2014), Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset, Third Edition (2012), The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock and Profit (2011), and Damodaran on Valuation: Security Analysis for Investment and Corporate Finance, Second Edition (2006).

A nadie se le escapa: Bitcoin ha recibido fuertes golpes. Como cualquier mercado financiero, el comercio de Bitcoin está dirigido por la emoción.

O mejor dicho, los inversores en criptodivisas se dejan llevar por las emociones y los recientes tuits de Elon Musk están provocando mucho FUD ("Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt").

De forma totalmente inesperada, atacó a Bitcoin por el consumo de energía fósil y la huella de carbono. A pesar de que esta historia ha sido desmentida muchas veces, la gente es muy sensible a esto, y cuando una celebridad tan grande grita algo, la mayoría de la gente lo cree inmediatamente y el miedo se acumula alrededor. Qué significa esto para el precio del Bitcoin y otras criptodivisas?

Stellar Moon Publishing ha recopilado este libro para ofrecer una visión de los mejores consejos y estrategias de trading para 2021 y 2022. Este libro ha sido escrito por un grupo de expertos en criptodivisas. Con este libro, nos esforzamos por ofrecerle la mejor información sobre el comercio y las inversiones en criptodivisas.

En este libro aprenderás:

• Evaluación adecuada del riesgo de las oportunidades de inversión
• Los principios de las inversiones a corto y largo plazo
• Estrategias rentables para el comercio de criptomonedas
• Consejos útiles y prácticos para obtener beneficios rápidamente
• La perspectiva actual y futura del mercado de las criptomonedas

Si quieres empezar con la inversión y el comercio de criptomonedas, obtén tu copia ahora! 

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About the Author
Megan Tobias Neely is Assistant Professor in the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School and coauthor of Divested: Inequality in the Age of Finance.

About the Author

An artist, author, exhibition curator, textile researcher, and film producer, Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada has long been a proponent of traditional and sustainable practices in fashion and textile production. She travels throughout the world giving lectures and workshops. Wada is the President of the World Shibori Network and founder of the Slow Fiber Studio in California. Mary Kellogg was a leading figure in the textile and crafts community. She passed away in 2011 at the age of 100. Artist Jane Barton studied textile art with Yoshiko Wada.

Quibi was going to put short, premium-quality videos in the hands of millions of content-hungry mobile consumers around the globe. The Apple Newton combined cool with indispensable in a way that was expected to spark a new mobile device market that was much bigger than the personal computing market. The $2,500 Tata Nano automobile was touted as a major gamechanger for India and the millions of aspiring middle-class customers who would surely buy one. The Segway personal transporter was introduced with fanfare as a marvel of technology that was poised to change urban transportation.

Each one of these products was to set the world on fire--disrupting markets and changing our lives forever.

Until they didn't.

In his groundbreaking book, Anticipate Failure, Lak Ananth--CEO of global venture capital firm Next47--describes the most common patterns of failure in innovation. He starts with the premise that building a business based on innovation is a perilous endeavor, and failures big and small are always around the corner. Ananth then dives into instances of failures, guiding the reader to understand root causes. Finally, he provides readers with insights and coaching that will enable them not just to avoid failure, but to anticipate it and then get through it on the way to success.

Anticipate Failure contains a riveting mix of stories of high-profile failures in innovation as well as many new stories that will be found nowhere else. In addition, Ananth has interviewed some of today's most successful founders and executives for the book, including Filip Kaliszan, CEO of Verkada; Gokul Rajaram, on the DoorDash executive team, Dr. Roland Busch, CEO of Siemens; James Joaquin, Managing Director of Obvious Ventures, Eran Ben-Shushan, CEO of Bizzabo; Andre Hartung, President of Diagnostic Imaging at Siemens Healthineers; Li Pu, President of Segway Robotics; and many others.

Anticipate Failure is not a "do-these-things-and-you-will-succeed" prescriptive kind of business book. Instead, it is a coach and trusted companion that will help any business founder, executive, and manager get through some of the most difficult challenges they will face when they embark on innovation and building a new business. Read it, then put the lessons you learn to work in your own business.

The goal of this guide is to help you understand the key moving parts of a startup cap table, review typical cap table inputs, and demystify terminology and jargon associated with cap table discussions. Along the way, this highly visual guide provides easy-to-follow examples for the most common calculations related to cap table building.

Expanding on these key skills every startup founder should know, this Founder's Pocket Guide helps you learn how to:

• Build your basic cap table step by step, including founder's shares, option pools, angel investor rounds, and VC rounds.
• Decipher cap table specific lingo, such as fully-diluted shares outstanding, preferred shares vs. common shares, Series A, Series B, and so on.
• Establish a stock option pool in your cap table and understand the option pool effect on founder dilution.
• Understand the simple math behind cap table formulas and calculations, including calculating fully diluted shares outstanding, investor equity ownership percentages, and share price.

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About the Author
Evan Baehr is the cofounder of Able, a tech company committed to growing the "fortune five million" small businesses around the United States with collaborative, low-interest loans. He's worked at the White House, a hedge fund, and Facebook and is a graduate of Princeton, Yale, and Harvard Business School.

Turn your financial data into insightful decisions with this straightforward guide to financial modeling with Excel

Interested in learning how to build practical financial models and forecasts but concerned that you don't have the math skills or technical know-how? We've got you covered! Financial decision-making has never been easier than with Financial Modeling in Excel For Dummies. Whether you work at a mom-and-pop retail store or a multinational corporation, you can learn how to build budgets, project your profits into the future, model capital depreciation, value your assets, and more.

You'll learn by doing as this book walks you through practical, hands-on exercises to help you build powerful models using just a regular version of Excel, which you've probably already got on your PC. You'll also:

• Master the tools and strategies that help you draw insights from numbers and data you've already got
• Build a successful financial model from scratch, or work with and modify an existing one to your liking
• Create new and unexpected business strategies with the ideas and conclusions you generate with scenario analysis

Don't go buying specialized software or hiring that expensive consultant when you don't need either one. If you've got this book and a working version of Microsoft Excel, you've got all the tools you need to build sophisticated and useful financial models in no time!

Este revuelo no tiene parangón: La demanda de NFT es alta y va en aumento, el mercado de comercio de activos digitales se ha convertido en un negocio lucrativo.

Artistas, inversores y coleccionistas están percibiendo nuevas oportunidades, porque los tokens virtuales están abriendo las puertas a un mercado futuro potencialmente enorme. Un NFT del artista gráfico Mike "Beeple" Winkelmann ya ha alcanzado los 69 millones de dólares estadounidenses, y los memes también están cambiando de manos por precios de seis cifras.

Qué son exactamente las NFT y para qué pueden servir?

Este libro sobre las NFT ha sido recopilado por los expertos en criptografía de Stellar Moon Publishing y le enseñará todo lo que necesita saber sobre el futuro del comercio de bienes digitales.

Tenemos todo cubierto, desde las tendencias actuales hasta todo lo que necesita saber sobre la compra o venta de NFT.

En este libro, aprenderá

• Evaluación adecuada de los riesgos de la negociación y venta de NFTs
• Los principios de las inversiones a corto y largo plazo de las NFT
• Estrategias rentables para establecer su plan de éxito NFT
• Consejos útiles y prácticos para rentabilizar su aventura en la NFT
• Perspectiva del mercado actual y futuro de los NFT

Si desea obtener una ventaja en el mercado de las NFTs, vendiendo y negociando, obtenga su copia ahora! 

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Get a handle on one of the most powerful forces in the world today with this straightforward, no-jargon guide to corporate finance

A firm grasp of the fundamentals of corporate finance can help explain and predict the behavior of businesses and businesspeople. And, with the right help from us, it's not that hard to learn!

In Corporate Finance For Dummies, an expert finance professor with experience in everything from small business to large, public corporations walks you through the basics of the subject. You'll find out how to read corporate financial statements, manage risks and investments, understand mergers and acquisitions, and value corporate assets.

In this book, you will also:

• Get a plain-English introduction to the financial concepts, instruments, definitions, and strategies that govern corporate finance
• Learn how to value a wide variety of instruments, from physical assets to intangible property, bonds, equities, and derivatives
• Explore the intricacies of financial statements, including the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows

Perfect for students in introductory corporate finance classes looking for an easy-to-follow supplementary resource, Corporate Finance For Dummies, delivers intuitive instruction combined with real-world examples that will give you the head start you need to get a grip on everything from the cost of capital to debt analytics, corporate bonds, derivatives, and more.

Author: Michael Taillard
Publisher: For Dummies
Published: 01/19/2022
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 7.20w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781119850311
ISBN10: 1119850312
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Corporate Finance | General

From the CFO who brought Salesforce, Pandora, and Yext public, "The IPO Playbook" delivers an insider's perspective of what it takes to prepare for a successful initial public offering.

Author Steve Cakebread walks readers through the ins and outs of taking your company public, from how to make the decision to do an IPO, to timing, preparation and execution, including building the right internal team and selecting external partners.

The book is both an invaluable reference guide and an enjoyable read that incorporates stories from Steve's time creating three successful IPOs, and his earlier career at Autodesk, Silicon Graphics and Hewlett Packard.

"The IPO Playbook" has received endorsements from the President of the New York Stock Exchange, Stacey Cunningham, Salesforce Chairman and co-CEO Marc Benioff, Yext CEO Howard Lerman, Bill.com CEO René Lacerte, CEO, Bill.com, SolarWinds President and CEO Kevin Thompson, Stanford University Disruptive Technology and Digital Cities Executive Director Michael Steep, and Salesforce President and CFO Mark Hawkins, and Yext Senior Vice President Dominic Paschel.

Entrepreneurs who envision going public will find value on every page. --Kirkus Reviews on The IPO Playbook by Steve Cakebread

In 2009, Canadian entrepreneur Mike Quinn packed his backpack and moved to Lusaka, Zambia on a mission to find African entrepreneurs building scalable, high-impact businesses. There he stumbled across two South African brothers who had founded a business to help unbanked smallholder farmers receive mobile payments in a market where cash was king. After convincing his retired parents to mortgage their house and lend him $100,000, Mike joined as a co-founder of Zoona and became CEO for nine of the next ten years.

With his partners, Mike built a network of more than 3,000 entrepreneur agents across Zambia and Malawi that enabled millions of unbanked consumers to send and receive $2.5-billion in money transfers and remittances. Headquartered in

Cape Town, South Africa, Zoona raised over $35-million of venture investment and operated on the leading edge of Africa's emerging fintech ecosystem.

Mike's remarkable story gives a rare and honest glimpse into the workings of a pioneering African startup through the lens of a purpose-driven entrepreneur who went "all in". Zoona faced tremendous adversity along the way: currency crises, investment round collapses, ruthless pushback from the major mobile network operators, and a continuous internal struggle to discover and execute a growth strategy that matched the company's billion-dollar ambition.It was by failing to win that Mike learned what entrepreneurship - specifically purpose-driven entrepreneurship - is all about, and it was what motivated him to double down and try again.

"This raw, honest account is a must-read for anyone thinking about starting a company and for every entrepreneur who feels alone in the journey."

- Elizabeth Yin, Co-Founder & General Partner of Hustle Fund

"Startups are hard. Most people understand this. However, most people don't understand why. Mike's story is a rare glimpse into how challenges present themselves - and ultimately how to overcome."

- Matt Flannery, Co-Founder of Kiva & Branch

"In a rare look behind the scenes, Mike shares a vivid picture of the other side of leadership we don't talk about enough. As he aptly describes 'founding, failing and winning', this book highlights the risk of taking that all-important first step, embracing failure and ensuring you learn the transformative lessons critical to success as an entrepreneurial leader."

- Fred Swaniker, Founder of African Leadership Group

"This story is a gift for entrepreneurs and indeed anyone wanting to learn about the first generation of African fintechs that paved the way for future companies to thrive."

- Katlego Maphai, Co-Founder & CEO of Yoco

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This hype is unparalleled: The demand for NFT is high and rising, the market for trading digital assets have become a lucrative business.

Artists, investors and collectors are sensing new opportunities, because the virtual tokens are opening the gates to a potentially huge future market. An NFT by graphic artist Mike "Beeple" Winkelmann has already fetched 69 million US dollars, and memes are also changing hands for six-figure prices.

What exactly are NFTs and what can they be used for?

This book about NFTs has been compiled by Stellar Moon Publishing's crypto experts and will teach you everything you need to know about the future of trading digital goods.

We've got you covered, from current trends to everything you need to know about buying or selling NFTs!

In this book, you will learn:

• Proper risk assessment for NFTs trading and selling
• The principles of short term and long term NFTs investments
• Profitable strategies for setting up your NFT success plan
• Useful and practical tips to make your venture into NFT profitable
• The current & future NFTs market perspective

If you want to get a head start in the NFTs market, selling and trading, grab your copy now!

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If you're part of a financial brand marketing, sales, or leadership team, you know the entire industry is in the midst of exponential change fueled by new technologies.

Consumers now make purchase decisions long before they walk into a physical branch location, if they walk into a branch at all, while mobile banks, digital lenders, and fintechs have transformed traditional growth models rooted in legacy broadcast marketing and branch sales strategies.

Up to this point you've only dabbled in digital marketing without a formal plan or strategy to guide you. Now you feel frustrated because you're not getting the results you hoped for. You're also confused about what you should do next.

In Banking on Digital Growth, James Robert Lay unlocks the secrets of digital growth with a strategic marketing manifesto to transform financial brands. You'll gain clarity with a strategic blueprint framed around 12 key areas of focus that empower you to confidently generate 10X more loans and deposits while finally proving the value of marketing as a strategic growth leader--not a cost center.