If you are like me, you are ready to jump into the constructing the financial model, but DO NOT IGNORE THIS POST! I guarantee that it will take you more than twice as long and you will make twice as many mistakes if you do not follow these simple best practices. A fully functional financial [...]
The focus of this series of posts is to teach you the fundamentals of financial modeling so that you can apply them to any number of areas. This method of financial modeling is different that many presented on the internet in that it is fully circular, meaning that updating any variable will affect all calculated [...]
Introduction Welcome to The Strategy Blog’s Community. We are a diverse community of thought leaders who seek to make the world a better place for all through the understanding and successful study and application of strategy. We gather at TheStrategyBlog.com to discuss ideas and strategies in a safe, open and respectful environment. To support the [...]
Admittedly, 2011 was a very dead year in terms of new posts, but there was still a fair amount of visitor traffic. The top posts of the year are as follow: 1. Excel Best Practices 2. Financial Modeling: Key Concepts 3. Jet Blue’s Strategy Behind the All You Can Jet Pass 4. Operating Synergy 5. [...]
Roundup of links to start your Monday morning thinking: Exit Interview: The creators of no-longer-with-us products explain what went wrong (37 Signals) Role of Genes in Life-Long Intelligence Pinned Down a Bit (Scientific American) Apple’s mind-bogglingly greedy and evil license agreement (ZD Net, via Clay Shirky) Online privacy: Do we have a right to be [...]
There has been much debate lately about Arianna Huffington’s “Move Your Money” campaign, where she asserts: If enough people who have money in one of the Big Six banks (the four we mentioned earlier, plus Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley) move it into smaller, more local, more traditional community banks, then collectively we, the people, [...]
Video interview with Thom Singer about networking and the power of business relationships, especially in entrepreneurship and social media
The Atlantic (which I absolutely love), posted their opinion of Jet Blue’s All You Can Jet pass, which suggested that it was designed for business travelers among other things. As much as I love them, I think The Atlantic got it completely wrong. I posted the comment below, but I thought it was worth reprinting [...]
You may have heard about JetBlue’s “All You Can Jet” promotion. You may have thought, “I could do that, but I don’t know where I’d go.” You are not thinking strategically! As you may know from reading Chris Guillebeau’s blog, Art of Nonconformity, the world is full of places to go (and he has been [...]
I’m a big fan of books. You may know how much I love my RSS feeds, but I love books at least ten times more. For all of the incredible information on the internet, there are some things you just cannot learn online [yet]. When I read I tend to focus on timeless themes or [...]
If you are like me, you are ready to jump into the constructing the financial model, but DO NOT IGNORE THIS POST! I guarantee that it will take you more than twice as long and you will make twice as many mistakes if you do not follow these simple best practices. A fully functional financial [...]
The focus of this series of posts is to teach you the fundamentals of financial modeling so that you can apply them to any number of areas. This method of financial modeling is different that many presented on the internet in that it is fully circular, meaning that updating any variable will affect all calculated [...]
Introduction Welcome to The Strategy Blog’s Community. We are a diverse community of thought leaders who seek to make the world a better place for all through the understanding and successful study and application of strategy. We gather at TheStrategyBlog.com to discuss ideas and strategies in a safe, open and respectful environment. To support the [...]
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