Sat.Aug 25, 2018

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The Esoteric Economics Of Feeling The Burn

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The Burn is upon us. This weekend, the hippest, coolest, most connected and most creative will converge on Nevada’s Black Rock desert and set up camp on “the playa” for the annual Burning Man festival. Once the great exodus is done – and the streets of Silicon Valley are suddenly emptied – the 70,000 or so burners who will make it out to the desert next week will celebrate the creative prowess of the human mind, the resilience of the human body and the extraordinary regenerative power of the hum

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The Real Reason for Bank Scale: Trading Multiples

Jeff For Banks

"Get big or get out." "You must be twice the size that you are to succeed." These are bromides that some industry talking heads might be telling you. I hear it and read it frequently. And in today's social media, non fact-based opinion society, if you say it enough, people may start to believe it. I moderated a strategic planning retreat with a bank that achieved top quartile financial performance.

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A Good Time To Be A (U.S.) Small Business Owner

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Small businesses in the U.S. are increasingly know for their optimism. Expectations about economic growth, and increases in their own revenues, make for a good time to be a small business owner in the country. In the U.K. and Australia, though, small business sentiment looks a bit different. This week’s B2B Data Digest looks at the numbers behind small businesses’ optimism (or pessimism), as well as new stats about adoption of technology like payment services and machine learnings. 7

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