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Lend Academy Podcast: Fintech Trends & What It Takes to Raise Capital Today

Many entrepreneurs look to Silicon Valley when raising money for their fintech startup, but it is certainly not the only place to...

Applying, Not Bigger, but Better Data to Customer Analytics

How customer-centricity, CLTV and better customer data drives prioritization, profitability and greater shareholder value. Key...

How to Create a Value Culture

How CEOs and their executive teams need to be thinking about company strategy, value and risk. Key takeaways from Edison's 2018...

When a Delay Is the Smarter Way to Play

At a recent CFO breakfast event, we explored the impact of revenue recognition on growth rate and how to evaluate whether to...

Edison Partners Unveils Eight Distinct Traits of Fast Growers

Eight characteristics of Fast Growers from Edison Partners' 2018 Growth Index

Fly, CEOs, Fly!

Edison's 7th Annual CEO Summit goes back to school at Wharton this year.

What IT Companies Tell Us About Healthcare’s Future Trends

The HIMSS conference was abuzz with a who’s who of healthcare IT, a perfect opportunity to gauge healthcare’s future trends in the...

Recap: DC Meetings for the Fintech Industry Report

Recap: Trip to Treasury - Washington DC Dialogues

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What’s Next in Fintech

We’re now in the fifth year of a fintech boom. I can say it: Investors are legitimately bullish on this sector. But not all...

6 Investor Questions About Your Financial Statements

When investors sit down to review your financial statements, they already have financial questions they’re looking to answer. Burn...

The Elite 8 States Ripe for Growth Equity Investment

Why looking outside the Big Three states for venture and growth equity investment is a smart move.

How To Be a Fast Grower in 2018

Eight characteristics of fast-growing companies from Edison Partners' 2016 Growth Index

Got Churn? 8 Questions Your Organization Should Be Asking Itself

Kelly Ford helps recurring revenue businesses combat churn with these 8 questions

Partnering with the Business: The Nash Effect

What's the #1 priority of a CFO? Putting the CEO in a position to score.

Five Lessons from a Sales Recruiting Junkie

Recruiting sales people? Felix Knoll, CRO, GAN Integrity and sales recruiting junkie, gives five tips you shouldn't forget when...

Measuring Scale: 5 Steps to Make Sense of Revenue per Employee

Five steps CFOs can use to take Revenue per Employee one step further.

The Unicorn Delusion: 3 Things You Should Know

A quick-and-dirty analysis to better understand the obsession with unicorn-chasing.

Does the American Dream Still Matter?

Chris Sugden deep-dives into the 2017 Annual Meeting keynote discussion between HBS Professor Rawi Abdelal and Bill Bennett,...

What Leaders Can Learn about Alignment from Super Bowl Champ Torrey Smith

What happens when everyone is on the same page? Alignment.

The Lessons Behind Recent High-Profile CEO Exits

CEOs we see who excel are very good in these two areas of building a great business.

Financial Modeling: It’s Just a Bunch of Numbers

At the end of the day, the financial forecasts we review are driven by a bunch of spreadsheet magic.

Scaling with Friends: Why Your Growth Business Should Harness the Power of Complements

Four ways B2B tech companies are incorporating complements into their growth strategies

The American Dream is Dead. Long Live the American Dream.

A reflection of HBS Professor Ravi Abdelal's session on Globalization at the 2017 CEO Summit.

Value-Based Strategy: What I Learned at Harvard

A look into Harvard Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee's session on Value Based Strategy and the "Value Stick" at the 2017 CEO Summit.

How CEOs Set Conditions for Employee and Company Success

A look into Harvard Professor Ryan Buell's session on the business success triangle at the 2017 CEO Summit.

Hey CFOs! What's Your Boulder?

We gathered Edison company CFOs for our Spring Roundtable to discuss boulders – the big hurdles to achieving growth and capital...

Edison CEOs Go Back To School

Harvard Business School. A look at the 2017 CEO Summit as we took our CEOs to HBS for some executive education.

CFO Transparency: Should We Be Talking About That?

How CFOs can promote transparency throughout their organizations without compromising confidentiality.

There's a Taskforce for That...

Embracing a taskforce approach to growth initiatives emphasizes priorities, cross-organizational alignment, and helps to build...

The CEO I Am Today Will Not Be Successful Tomorrow

Jon Reynolds shares top tips from the 2017 Strategic Growth Summit Keynote Panel of 3 highly successful CEOs who broke the $50M...

You're Growing, But Are You Scaling? 5 Strategies to Help You Scale Growth

Building a successful company is not only about growth; it's also about scale. Here are five strategies for scaling growth in your...