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Say on Pay: Qualcomm, Inc. Shareholders Vote 'Maybe' in 2012
by Suraj Srinivasan Charles C.Y. Wang Kelly BakerThis case centers around Qualcomm shareholders' 2012 Say-on-Pay vote and the dispute between the Institutional Shareholder Services and management regarding the appropriateness of the CEO's compensation plan. Was ISS right that Qualcomm CEO's pay was inflated and justified by benchmarking to aspirational peers? Or was management correct that its CEO's pay is warranted by Qualcomm's recent firm performance?
Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice
by Kenji Yoshino David GlasgowA Living Now Book Awards Gold Medalist, Social Activism/Charity A practical, shame-free guide for navigating conversations across our differences at a time of rapid social change.In the current period of social and political unrest, conversations about identity are becoming more frequent and more difficult. On subjects like critical race theory, gender equity in the workplace, and LGBTQ-inclusive classrooms, many of us are understandably fearful of saying the wrong thing. That fear can sometimes prevent us from speaking up at all, depriving people from marginalized groups of support and stalling progress toward a more just and inclusive society. Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow, founders of the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at NYU School of Law, are here to show potential allies that these conversations don&’t have to be so overwhelming. Through stories drawn from contexts as varied as social media posts, dinner party conversations, and workplace disputes, they offer seven user-friendly principles that teach skills such as how to avoid common conversational pitfalls, engage in respectful disagreement, offer authentic apologies, and better support people in our lives who experience bias. Research-backed, accessible, and uplifting, Say the Right Thing charts a pathway out of cancel culture toward more meaningful and empathetic dialogue on issues of identity. It also gives us the practical tools to do good in our spheres of influence. Whether managing diverse teams at work, navigating issues of inclusion at college, or challenging biased comments at a family barbecue, Yoshino and Glasgow help us move from unconsciously hurting people to consciously helping them.
Saying It Well: Touching Others with Your Words
by Charles R. SwindollBestselling author and master communicator Charles Swindoll has been effectively speaking to others for over fifty years. In SAYING IT WELL: Touching Others With Your Words he shares his secrets on how to talk so people will listen.Filled with techniques, stories, and models that clearly explain the formulas for successful speaking, Swindoll teaches readers the foundational principles for how to communicate, from preparing for a speech, organizing thoughts, and filtering out the superfluous to overcoming fears, grabbing the listener's attention, and knowing how and when to stop. With humorous stories and inventive, practical tips, one of America's premier communicators shares decades of experience on how to speak with authority in every situation, persuade others to consider the reader's perspective, overcome the reader's fears of public speaking, and love others more effectively with the reader's words. He also shares his personal story and the journey to becoming a world-famous speaker.
Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future: The Case For an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods
by Chris Smaje“Everyone in the food business needs to read this book. . . . [A] lively and superbly written polemic.”—Joel Salatin, co-founder of Polyface Farm A defense of agroecological, small-scale farming and a robust critique of an industrialized future. One of the few voices to challenge The Guardian's George Monbiot on the future of food and farming (and the restoration of nature) is academic, farmer and author of A Small Farm Future Chris Smaje. In Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future, Smaje presents his defense of small-scale farming and a robust critique of Monbiot’s vision for an urban and industrialized future. Responding to Monbiot’s portrayal of an urban, high-energy, industrially manufactured food future as the answer to our current crises, and its unchallenged acceptance within the environmental discourse, Smaje was compelled to challenge Monbiot’s evidence and conclusions. At the same time, Smaje presents his powerful counterargument – a low-carbon agrarian localism that puts power in the hands of local communities, not high-tech corporates. In the ongoing fight for our food future, this book will help you to understand the difference between a congenial, ecological living and a dystopian, factory-centered existence. A must-read! "Chris Smaje has laid down an indictment – as unremitting as it is undeniable – that cuts through the jargon-filled, techno-worshipping agricultural futurists who promise silver-bullet fixes for having your cake and eating it too. This brilliant and compelling book is at once hopeful and persuasive about the future of food."—Dan Barber, chef at Blue Hill and author of The Third Plate
Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future: The Case For an Ecological Food System and Against Manufactured Foods
by Chris Smaje&“Everyone in the food business needs to read this book. . . . [A] lively and superbly written polemic.&”—Joel Salatin, co-founder of Polyface FarmNamed the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Awards "Best Books of 2023"A defense of agroecological, small-scale farming and a robust critique of an industrialized future.One of the few voices to challenge The Guardian's George Monbiot on the future of food and farming (and the restoration of nature) is academic, farmer and author of A Small Farm Future Chris Smaje. In Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future, Smaje presents his defense of small-scale farming and a robust critique of Monbiot&’s vision for an urban and industrialized future.Responding to Monbiot&’s portrayal of an urban, high-energy, industrially manufactured food future as the answer to our current crises, and its unchallenged acceptance within the environmental discourse, Smaje was compelled to challenge Monbiot&’s evidence and conclusions. At the same time, Smaje presents his powerful counterargument – a low-carbon agrarian localism that puts power in the hands of local communities, not high-tech corporates.In the ongoing fight for our food future, this book will help you to understand the difference between a congenial, ecological living and a dystopian, factory-centered existence. A must-read!"Chris Smaje has laid down an indictment – as unremitting as it is undeniable – that cuts through the jargon-filled, techno-worshipping agricultural futurists who promise silver-bullet fixes for having your cake and eating it too. This brilliant and compelling book is at once hopeful and persuasive about the future of food."—Dan Barber, chef at Blue Hill and author of The Third Plate
Sbir And The Phase Iii Challenge Of Commercialization: Report Of A Symposium
by National Research Council of the National AcademiesCommercialization of successful SBIR awards is a key challenge for the program and represents an essential step in the program’s contribution to government missions. To better understand the challenges inherent in the conversion of promising research to useful products and processes, the National Research Council convened a conference focused on the commercialization of SBIR-funded innovations at DoD and NASA. A unique feature of the conference is that it brought together, for the first time, the program managers, small business leaders, and prime contractor personnel involved in commercializing the results of SBIR awards through procurement at DoD and NASA. These participants identified the challenges and highlighted existing and evolving best practices among successful cases in the third (or commercialization) phase of the SBIR program. The conference, captured in this report, contributed significantly to a better understanding of the obstacles and opportunities in this phase of the SBIR program and to legislation designed to address these challenges.
Scala Data Analysis Cookbook
by Arun ManivannanNavigate the world of data analysis, visualization, and machine learning with over 100 hands-on Scala recipesAbout This BookImplement Scala in your data analysis using features from Spark, Breeze, and ZeppelinScale up your data anlytics infrastructure with practical recipes for Scala machine learningRecipes for every stage of the data analysis process, from reading and collecting data to distributed analyticsWho This Book Is ForThis book shows data scientists and analysts how to leverage their existing knowledge of Scala for quality and scalable data analysis.What You Will LearnFamiliarize and set up the Breeze and Spark libraries and use data structuresImport data from a host of possible sources and create dataframes from CSVClean, validate and transform data using Scala to pre-process numerical and string dataIntegrate quintessential machine learning algorithms using Scala stackBundle and scale up Spark jobs by deploying them into a variety of cluster managersRun streaming and graph analytics in Spark to visualize data, enabling exploratory analysisIn DetailThis book will introduce you to the most popular Scala tools, libraries, and frameworks through practical recipes around loading, manipulating, and preparing your data. It will also help you explore and make sense of your data using stunning and insightfulvisualizations, and machine learning toolkits.Starting with introductory recipes on utilizing the Breeze and Spark libraries, get to grips withhow to import data from a host of possible sources and how to pre-process numerical, string, and date data. Next, you'll get an understanding of concepts that will help you visualize data using the Apache Zeppelin and Bokeh bindings in Scala, enabling exploratory data analysis. iscover how to program quintessential machine learning algorithms using Spark ML library. Work through steps to scale your machine learning models and deploy them into a standalone cluster, EC2, YARN, and Mesos. Finally dip into the powerful options presented by Spark Streaming, and machine learning for streaming data, as well as utilizing Spark GraphX.Style and approachThis book contains a rich set of recipes that covers the full spectrum of interesting data analysis tasks and will help you revolutionize your data analysis skills using Scala and Spark.
Scala Design Patterns
by Ivan NikolovWrite efficient, clean, and reusable code with Scala About This Book * Unleash the power of Scala and apply it in the real world * Increase your efficiency by leveraging the power of Creational, Structural, Behavioural, and Functional design patterns * Build object oriented and functional applications quickly and effectively Who This Book Is For If you want to increase your understanding of Scala and apply it to real-life application development, then this book is for you. We've also designed the book to be used as a quick reference guide while creating applications. Previous Scala programming knowledge is expected. What You Will Learn * Immerse yourself in industry-standard design patterns--structural, creational, and behavioral--to create extraordinary applications * Feel the power of traits and their application in Scala * Implement abstract and self types and build clean design patterns * Build complex entity relationships using structural design patterns * Create applications faster by applying functional design patterns In Detail Scala has become increasingly popular in many different IT sectors. The language is exceptionally feature-rich which helps developers write less code and get faster results. Design patterns make developer's lives easier by helping them write great software that is easy to maintain, runs efficiently and is valuable to the company or people concerned. You will learn about the various features of Scala and be able to apply well-known, industry-proven design patterns in your work. The book starts off by focusing on some of the most interesting features of Scala while using practical real-world examples. We will also cover the popular "Gang of Four" design patterns and show you how to incorporate functional patterns effectively. By the end of this book, you will have enough knowledge and understanding to quickly assess problems and come up with elegant solutions. Style and approach The design patterns in the book will be explained using real-world, step-by-step examples. For each design pattern, there will be hints about when to use it and when to look for something more suitable. This book can also be used as a practical guide, showing you how to leverage design patterns effectively.
Scala Programming for Big Data Analytics: Get Started With Big Data Analytics Using Apache Spark
by Irfan ElahiGain the key language concepts and programming techniques of Scala in the context of big data analytics and Apache Spark. The book begins by introducing you to Scala and establishes a firm contextual understanding of why you should learn this language, how it stands in comparison to Java, and how Scala is related to Apache Spark for big data analytics. Next, you’ll set up the Scala environment ready for examining your first Scala programs. This is followed by sections on Scala fundamentals including mutable/immutable variables, the type hierarchy system, control flow expressions and code blocks.The author discusses functions at length and highlights a number of associated concepts such as functional programming and anonymous functions. The book then delves deeper into Scala’s powerful collections system because many of Apache Spark’s APIs bear a strong resemblance to Scala collections. Along the way you’ll see the development life cycle of a Scala program. This involves compiling and building programs using the industry-standard Scala Build Tool (SBT). You’ll cover guidelines related to dependency management using SBT as this is critical for building large Apache Spark applications. Scala Programming for Big Data Analytics concludes by demonstrating how you can make use of the concepts to write programs that run on the Apache Spark framework. These programs will provide distributed and parallel computing, which is critical for big data analytics.What You Will LearnSee the fundamentals of Scala as a general-purpose programming languageUnderstand functional programming and object-oriented programming constructs in ScalaUse Scala collections and functions Develop, package and run Apache Spark applications for big data analyticsWho This Book Is ForData scientists, data analysts and data engineers who intend to use Apache Spark for large-scale analytics.
Scalable Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare: Advancing AI Solutions for Global Health Challenges (Analytics and AI for Healthcare)
by Houneida Sakly, Ramzi Guetari, and Naoufel KraiemThis edited volume examines the transformative impact of AI technologies on global healthcare systems, with a focus on enhancing efficiency and accessibility. The content provides a comprehensive exploration of the principles and practices required to scale AI applications in healthcare, addressing areas such as diagnosis, treatment, and patient care.Key topics include data scalability, model deployment, and infrastructure design, highlighting the use of microservices, containerization, cloud computing, and big data technologies in building scalable AI systems. Discussions cover advancements in machine learning models, distributed processing, and transfer learning, alongside critical considerations such as continuous integration, data privacy, and ethics. Real-world case studies depict both the successes and challenges of implementing scalable AI across various healthcare environments, offering valuable insights for future advancements.This volume serves as a practical and theoretical guide for healthcare professionals, AI researchers, and technology enthusiasts seeking to develop or expand on AI-driven healthcare solutions to address global health challenges effectively.
Scalable Data Streaming with Amazon Kinesis: Design and secure highly available, cost-effective data streaming applications with Amazon Kinesis
by Tarik Makota Brian Maguire Danny Gagne Rajeev ChakrabartiExplore Kinesis managed services such as Kinesis Data Streams, Kinesis Data Analytics, Kinesis Data Firehose, and Kinesis Video Streams with the help of practical use casesKey FeaturesGet well versed with the capabilities of Amazon KinesisExplore the monitoring, scaling, security, and deployment patterns of various Amazon Kinesis servicesLearn how other Amazon Web Services and third-party applications such as Splunk can be used as destinations for Kinesis dataBook DescriptionAmazon Kinesis is a collection of secure, serverless, durable, and highly available purpose-built data streaming services. This data streaming service provides APIs and client SDKs that enable you to produce and consume data at scale. Scalable Data Streaming with Amazon Kinesis begins with a quick overview of the core concepts of data streams, along with the essentials of the AWS Kinesis landscape. You'll then explore the requirements of the use case shown through the book to help you get started and cover the key pain points encountered in the data stream life cycle. As you advance, you'll get to grips with the architectural components of Kinesis, understand how they are configured to build data pipelines, and delve into the applications that connect to them for consumption and processing. You'll also build a Kinesis data pipeline from scratch and learn how to implement and apply practical solutions. Moving on, you'll learn how to configure Kinesis on a cloud platform. Finally, you'll learn how other AWS services can be integrated into Kinesis. These services include Redshift, Dynamo Database, AWS S3, Elastic Search, and third-party applications such as Splunk. By the end of this AWS book, you'll be able to build and deploy your own Kinesis data pipelines with Kinesis Data Streams (KDS), Kinesis Data Firehose (KFH), Kinesis Video Streams (KVS), and Kinesis Data Analytics (KDA).What you will learnGet to grips with data streams, decoupled design, and real-time stream processingUnderstand the properties of KFH that differentiate it from other Kinesis servicesMonitor and scale KDS using CloudWatch metricsSecure KDA with identity and access management (IAM)Deploy KVS as infrastructure as code (IaC)Integrate services such as Redshift, Dynamo Database, and Splunk into KinesisWho this book is forThis book is for solutions architects, developers, system administrators, data engineers, and data scientists looking to evaluate and choose the most performant, secure, scalable, and cost-effective data streaming technology to overcome their data ingestion and processing challenges on AWS. Prior knowledge of cloud architectures on AWS, data streaming technologies, and architectures is expected.
Scalable Innovation: A Guide for Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and IP Professionals
by Eugene Shteyn Max ShteinInnovation is a primary source of economic growth, and yet only one idea out of 3,000 becomes a successful product or service. Scalable Innovation: A Guide for Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and IP Professionals introduces a model for the innovation process, helping innovators to understand the nature and timing of opportunities and risks on the path to
Scalarization and Separation by Translation Invariant Functions: with Applications in Optimization, Nonlinear Functional Analysis, and Mathematical Economics (Vector Optimization)
by Christiane Tammer Petra WeidnerLike norms, translation invariant functions are a natural and powerful tool for the separation of sets and scalarization. This book provides an extensive foundation for their application. It presents in a unified way new results as well as results which are scattered throughout the literature. The functions are defined on linear spaces and can be applied to nonconvex problems. Fundamental theorems for the function class are proved, with implications for arbitrary extended real-valued functions. The scope of applications is illustrated by chapters related to vector optimization, set-valued optimization, and optimization under uncertainty, by fundamental statements in nonlinear functional analysis and by examples from mathematical finance as well as from consumer and production theory. The book is written for students and researchers in mathematics and mathematical economics. Engineers and researchers from other disciplines can benefit from the applications, for example from scalarization methods for multiobjective optimization and optimal control problems.
Scale Passion: Igniting Purpose, Driving Impact
by Rob CravenWe&’ve been duped into believing a number of unhelpful notions about starting and leading a successful company, not least of all that profit and purpose are mutually exclusive. Rob Craven believes that we can evolve toward a better kind of capitalism. Infuse purpose and passion into all parts of your company so that as your business grows and flourishes, so does your impact.Scaling a business is a straightforward endeavor—grow and expand your company while maintaining efficiency and profitability. Impact-minded leaders need a field guide for generating both economic value and contributing to societal well-being. Let Scale Passion be your companion on the journey to building a company whose social impact differentiates you from the competition, drives exceptional employee engagement, and becomes a prized asset for your stakeholders and investors. CEO, investor, consultant, and founder of ScalePassion Rob Craven empowers you to leverage your organizations as a force for good by showing you how to: Elevate your leadership by tapping into your personal purpose, passion, and power Scale your purpose and passion by building an impact-minded company/team Inspire an ever-widening circle of customers, investors, and community stakeholders Organized around his father&’s three most important principles for living—be bold as hell, do it right, commit to making a difference—Craven&’s guidance is a mentorship-in-your-pocket resource for cultivating your superpowers as a leader. Scale Passion offers a proven, practical method for building a successful, impact-minded organization and achieving your change-the-world goals, featuring inspiring stories of leaders who are doing just that.
Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners
by David Lane Christina R. WingRealizing in early 2021 that their pending real estate investment fund would likely be oversubscribed, Drake Real Estate Partners co-founders Nicol s Ib ez and David Cotterman were considering how best to continue to diversify their investor base and how to optimize operational efficiency as they deployed increasing amounts of capital. Although his family office had funded the company's first fund, Ib ez added Latin American family investors and some institutions to subsequent funds while Cotterman focused on delivering 20+% returns. As they looked ahead to their fourth fund and beyond, the partners needed to decide how best to develop their firm and their offerings as they worked to attract capital without alienating either their smart-money family investors or their nascent institutional clientele.
Scale at Speed: How to Triple the Size of Your Business and Build a Superstar Team
by Felix VelardeScale at Speed shows you how to double your company's revenue in two years. It is a must-read for anyone who wants to safely and rapidly accelerate the growth of their business. It's a proven framework built on solid research and deep experience to deliver fast growth. Discover how to bypass many of the mistakes that can delay or fatally undermine success, and how to make being a founder and a leader fun again.Growing a business is easy once you've done it several times and learned from your inevitable mistakes. You will learn how to identify and motivate A-players without tedious trial and error. You can get an exceptional price when you sell. Whether you have ten staff or a thousand, Scale at Speed will make your business feel like a rocket on rails once again. Scale at Speed provides tools that cut straight to the most effective way of doing things as your company grows. Practical advice is given on how to: - Transform your company so it's scalable- Build enthusiastic support for your vision- Identify the most critical improvements- Hire and motivate superstars- Become a market leader while reducing marketing costs- Double or triple your revenueAnd much more. Written in a clear, honest and engaging style by an industry-leading serial entrepreneur and chairman, Scale at Speed delivers a practical formula for rapid, surefooted growth.
Scale at Speed: How to Triple the Size of Your Business and Build a Superstar Team
by Felix VelardeScale at Speed shows you how to double your company's revenue in two years. It is a must-read for anyone who wants to safely and rapidly accelerate the growth of their business. It's a proven framework built on solid research and deep experience to deliver fast growth. Discover how to bypass many of the mistakes that can delay or fatally undermine success, and how to make being a founder and a leader fun again.Growing a business is easy once you've done it several times and learned from your inevitable mistakes. You will learn how to identify and motivate A-players without tedious trial and error. You can get an exceptional price when you sell. Whether you have ten staff or a thousand, Scale at Speed will make your business feel like a rocket on rails once again. Scale at Speed provides tools that cut straight to the most effective way of doing things as your company grows. Practical advice is given on how to: - Transform your company so it's scalable- Build enthusiastic support for your vision- Identify the most critical improvements- Hire and motivate superstars- Become a market leader while reducing marketing costs- Double or triple your revenueAnd much more. Written in a clear, honest and engaging style by an industry-leading serial entrepreneur and chairman, Scale at Speed delivers a practical formula for rapid, surefooted growth.
Scale or Fail: How to Build Your Dream Team, Explode Your Growth, and Let Your Business Soar
by Allison MaslanScaling a business is not for the faint of heart. It’s a mind-bending journey that causes millions of business owners around the globe to either throw in the towel—or avoid risk entirely and suffer from smallness and mediocrity. Most of these businesses fail because they are ill prepared to face the real challenges involved in scaling. Either they don’t have the bandwidth to keep up with the sales demand or production, miss out on major opportunities due to fear, or keep making the same mistakes over and over because systems and processes aren’t in sync with the rate of growth. To truly scale, you must upsize your strategic practices, implement new marketing strategies, find new ways to build your team, and expand your mindset to break through whatever is keeping you stuck at the same level. Then you must be willing to take the leap into the giant unknown – to make your impossible possible. In Scale or Fail, author Allison Maslan—who has successfully scaled ten companies from scratch and has guided thousands of small businesses to do the same—shares her revolutionary SCALEit Method ® for successfully growing, replicating, and expanding your business. She also shares pivotal mindset strategies she’s used to break the fear barrier as a trapeze artist so you can move past any obstacle, take strategic Big Picture risks, and fulfill your dreams of business expansion and skyrocketing profit. Featuring a wealth of real-life success stories, visual tools, and exercises that are prescriptive and inspirational, Scale or Fail offers proven scaling strategies and a proactive approach to: Create your Big Picture Vision and build a plan to achieve it Produce an ever-flowing stream of cash flow with consistent profits Establish a powerhouse team that functions well without you Become a true leader and feel like you deserve your success Improve systems and processes that facilitate scaling Get past the mental and strategic pitfalls that cause revenue bottlenecks Scale or Fail is adaptable to any type of business—manufacturing, consumer goods, a brick and mortar, a digital service, a wholesaler, a consulting service, and everything in between. Whether you’re six figures and scaling to seven. . . or in the seven figures and scaling to eight or even nine, Scale or Fail provides the roadmap to multiply your business growth—and empower you to soar in the air with the greatest of ease.
Scale-up and Build Your Business: How to Recognise and Overcome the Critical Challenges of Business Growth and Exit
by David MolianHow do business founders not only start a business but ensure sustainable growth for the future? This book provides the tools and understanding that enable successful business growth at the scale-up stage. Scale-up and Build Your Business distils the author’s two decades of working with high-growth, high-performing independently owned and managed businesses, including Cobra Beer, Hotel Chocolat, Belvoir Cordials, Thatcher’s Cider, Pacific Direct and Go Ape. Over many years David Molian and his colleagues have identified both the drivers that accelerate growth and the blockers that prevent it. Through case histories, industry analyses and numerous examples this book details five key challenges faced by ambitious entrepreneurs, and documents how they overcome them. For each key challenge, this book describes the accelerators and bear traps which will help or hinder the journey to successful growth and the creation of long-term, sustainable, independent value that translates into successful exit. The lessons within this book will be invaluable for policymakers, advisors and ambitious business founders who want to turn a start-up into a successful and sustainable company. In a period marked by uncertainty and economic stagnation, this guide is more vital than ever.
Scale-up and Build Your Business: How to Recognise and Overcome the Critical Challenges of Business Growth and Exit
by David MolianHow do business founders not only start a business but ensure sustainable growth for the future? This book provides the tools and understanding that enable successful business growth at the scale-up stage.Scale-up and Build Your Business distils the author’s two decades of working with high-growth, high-performing independently owned and managed businesses, including Cobra Beer, Hotel Chocolat, Belvoir Cordials, Thatcher’s Cider, Pacific Direct and Go Ape. Over many years David Molian and his colleagues have identified both the drivers that accelerate growth and the blockers that prevent it. Through case histories, industry analyses and numerous examples this book details five key challenges faced by ambitious entrepreneurs, and documents how they overcome them. For each key challenge, this book describes the accelerators and bear traps which will help or hinder the journey to successful growth and the creation of long-term, sustainable, independent value that translates into successful exit.The lessons within this book will be invaluable for policymakers, advisors and ambitious business founders who want to turn a start-up into a successful and sustainable company. In a period marked by uncertainty and economic stagnation, this guide is more vital than ever.
Scale-up-Navigator: Das Handbuch für nachhaltig skalierende Start-ups - vom Start-up zum Outlier
by Andreas Goeldi Dietmar Grichnik Michael Greger Manuel Hess Florian SchweitzerMit Case Studies von Scale-ups wie DeepL, SumUp, 1KOMMA5°, Frontify oder Ledgy! Europa hat mit seinen über 700 Millionen EinwohnerInnen einen großen Binnenmarkt, auf dem aber keine Technologieunternehmen vom Kaliber globaler Big Techs wie Apple, Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Meta/Facebook oder Microsoft gelistet sind. In der ersten Digitalisierungswelle des Internets genossen die USA durch ihren homogenen Heimatmarkt einen klaren Wachstumsvorteil. Dies mag sich durch maschinelle Übersetzungstools und weitere KI-unterstützte Lösungen ändern. Hierzu muss die Skalierung von europäischen Unternehmen erlernt werden. Sie ist eine entscheidende Fähigkeit in einem Spiel auf Zeit: Start-ups müssen wachsen, bevor ihre Konkurrenz aus anderen Start-ups oder etablierten Unternehmen an ihnen vorbeizieht. Dazu gilt es, den gestiegenen Anforderungen an die soziale und ökologische Nachhaltigkeit sowie Unternehmensführung (ESG) gerecht zu werden. Dieses Buch vermittelt Leitlinien für GründerInnen, Mitarbeitende, Investoren/Investorinnen, Mentoren/Mentorinnen und weitere Stakeholder von skalierenden Start-ups, sogenannten "Scale-ups", die sie beim schnellen und nachhaltigen Wachstum unterstützen. Sie entwickeln damit ein besseres Verständnis für verschiedenste Herausforderungen bei der Skalierung ihres Unternehmens und meistern diese besser, wie beispielsweise die Entwicklung und Führung ihres Teams, die Bewertung von Wachstums- und Finanzierungsoptionen sowie die Implementierung effizienter Organisationsstrukturen und Kommunikationsprozesse. Die LeserInnen profitieren konkret von: - einer Strukturierung der Skalierung, basierend auf einem iterativen Prozess-Framework; - einem durchgehenden Fokus auf für den Kapitalmarkt relevante ESG-Kriterien; - Handlungsempfehlungen inklusive digitaler Tools, welche sie bei der Skalierung ihrer Unternehmen unterstützen.
Scale-ups and High-Growth Firms: Theory, Definitions, and Measurement (SpringerBriefs in Business)
by Alexander McKelvie Alex Coad Anders Bornhäll Sven-Olov DaunfeldtThis open access book goes into the details of the characteristics of scale-ups, touching upon various theoretical perspectives (stages of growth models, the role of intangible capital, the tradeoffs between fixed costs and marginal costs) relating to firm growth, to provide a clear definition of this emerging concept. Given the disproportionately large economic contribution of a small number of fast-growing firms, there has been growing interest in a category of dynamic ventures called "scale-ups". The term was popularized by Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists before receiving attention from academics and public policy makers. However, there remains considerable confusion regarding what a scale-up actually is.This is an open access book.
Scale: Seven Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back
by David Finkel Jeff HoffmanYour concrete road map to rapidly grow your business and get your life back!Have you ever wanted to grow your business but held back because of fear that it would take over your life? <P><P>As an owner, it's all too common to feel you have to choose between your personal life and the success of your business. But the surprising truth is that the only way to truly scale and grow your company is to reduce its reliance on you.<P>This means that, done right, scaling ensures that you can grow your business without sacrificing your life.Jeff Hoffman, a serial entrepreneur and former CEO in the Priceline.com (Priceline Yardsale) family of companies, and David Finkel, CEO of Maui Mastermind, a business coaching company with thousands of clients worldwide, offer a concrete road map for rapidly growing your business while also gaining more personal freedom.You'll not only learn the best strategies to generate growth, but you'll also get proven insider tips to sustain that growth through sound systems, empowered teams, and intelligent internal controls. Hoffman and Finkel will also show you how to overcome predictable obstacles in any pillar of your business--including sales, operations, and finance--with insight for building better lead-generation systems, managing cash flow, and retaining talent. You'll learn how to:* Escape the Self-Employment Trap and build a business, not a job. * Systematize your business to reduce costs and increase capacity. * Ensure your company survives the "Hit by a Bus" test. * Uncover your company's top leverage points (and execution strategies to implement what you discover). * Fund your growth with the seven cash flow commandments. * And much more.Scale offers a game plan to work less and get your business to produce more. Written by two worldclass entrepreneurs who have started, scaled, and successfully exited from multiple businesses, which collectively have generated tens of billions of dollars in sales, it gives you their bottom-line best ideas to effectively grow your company.If you have ever felt stuck in your business, not knowing the best way forward, this book is your mustread guide.From the Hardcover edition.
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (Santa Fe Institute Studies On The Sciences Of Complexity)
by Geoffrey WestFrom one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of everything from plants and animals to the cities we live in.Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term “complexity” can be misleading, however, because what makes West’s discoveries so beautiful is that he has found an underlying simplicity that unites the seemingly complex and diverse phenomena of living systems, including our bodies, our cities and our businesses. Fascinated by aging and mortality, West applied the rigor of a physicist to the biological question of why we live as long as we do and no longer. The result was astonishing, and changed science: West found that despite the riotous diversity in mammals, they are all, to a large degree, scaled versions of each other. If you know the size of a mammal, you can use scaling laws to learn everything from how much food it eats per day, what its heart-rate is, how long it will take to mature, its lifespan, and so on. Furthermore, the efficiency of the mammal’s circulatory systems scales up precisely based on weight: if you compare a mouse, a human and an elephant on a logarithmic graph, you find with every doubling of average weight, a species gets 25% more efficient—and lives 25% longer. Fundamentally, he has proven, the issue has to do with the fractal geometry of the networks that supply energy and remove waste from the organism’s body. West’s work has been game-changing for biologists, but then he made the even bolder move of exploring his work’s applicability. Cities, too, are constellations of networks and laws of scalability relate with eerie precision to them. Recently, West has applied his revolutionary work to the business world. This investigation has led to powerful insights into why some companies thrive while others fail. The implications of these discoveries are far-reaching, and are just beginning to be explored. Scale is a thrilling scientific adventure story about the elemental natural laws that bind us together in simple but profound ways. Through the brilliant mind of Geoffrey West, we can envision how cities, companies and biological life alike are dancing to the same simple, powerful tune.
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies
by Geoffrey WestGeoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses.Why do organisms and ecosystems scale with size in a remarkably universal and systematic fashion?Is there a maximum size of cities? Of animals and plants? What about companies?Can scale show us how to create a more sustainable future?By applying the rigour of physics to questions of biology, visionary physicist Geoffrey West found that despite the riotous diversity in the sizes of mammals, they are all, to a large degree, scaled versions of each other. This speaks to everything from how long we can expect to live to how many hours of sleep we need. He then made the even bolder move of exploring his work's applicability to cities and to the business world. These investigations have led to powerful insights about the elemental natural laws that bind us together in profound ways, and how all complex systems are dancing to the same simple tune, however diverse and unrelated they may seem.