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Book review: All you need to know about commercial awareness by Christopher Stoakes

Red Star Kim

I facilitate various workshops designed to increase commercial awareness. I invited him once to facilitate a junior professionals’ networking event for an accountancy practice – where he talked about one of his other books “All you need to know about the City” (latest version updated in 2022). For young professionals.

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Managing Partners’ Forum Strategy Summit

Red Star Kim

Thanks to the Managing Partners’ Forum Strategy Summit at haysmacintyre earlier this week.

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The Startup Founder's Guide to Cap Tables

Hubspot Sales

Outline distributions to the founding team -- and use the cap table to facilitate the conversation on day one. Having a clear snapshot of your company's ownership structure enables you to run a what-if analysis on a financing round. Managing employee options. Stock options are a great way to do just that.

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10 Ways To Finance Your Business

Aepiphanni

Unstable finances cause a great deal of stress on business owners, not to mention having to address the various concerns if they have employees on the payroll. Deciding whether to find financing for one’s business and how to choose the best option can be challenging. Bank Loans – a typical lending situation for businesses.

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8 Online Networking Platforms for Black Entrepreneurs

Hubspot Sales

The HubSpot Community has over 100k members and encourages professionals to use its forum feature to have longer conversations on topics like entrepreneurship, tech, marketing, business, finance, and more. Melanance’s platform is unique because connections are facilitated by their team and over 2,000 connections have been made to date.

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Africa’s Getting Younger — 3 Reasons Why That’s Exciting for Entrepreneurs

Hubspot Sales

Trendster George Burgess is the founder of Modern Day Talent , a startup that sources and facilitates remote talent in South Africa for European companies. Help meet the needs of remote professionals with co-working spaces, laptop financing, or specialized employee benefits solutions. He says that South African talent: ? Build skills.

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Context and curiosity drive commerciality and pricing

Red Star Kim

This week’s PM Forum training workshop “Commerciality: Finance, Pricing, Innovation and Research” was attended by delegates from law, accountancy and insolvency firms. This supports career development by broadening knowledge, facilitating collaboration and becoming T-shaped. So marketing is reliant on research and financial knowledge.