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How the Four Types of Intellectual Property Contribute Value to Your Company
Intellectual property is a highly valuable type of intangible business capital. It can take 1 of 4 forms: trademarks, patents, copyrights, or trade secrets.
Your company must take the time and invest the resources to protect its intellectual property! Learn why IP’s are so important, and how you can protect yours in our latest article.
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Exit Planning
Insights on maximizing value, overcoming obstacles, and ensuring a smooth transition.
Business Value
Learn proven strategies to increase your company’s value, overcome growth barriers, and position it for a profitable exit.
Finance Strategy
Practical advice to optimize cash flow, manage financial risks, and ensure your business stays on a path to sustained growth and profitability.
CEPA Insights
If You Don’t Have a Leadership Transition Plan, Your Exit Could Fail
If you Don’t Have a Leadership Transition Plan, Your Exit Could Fail
Set Your Business Up To Run Without You
Set Your Business Up to Run Without You
Fixing an Unprofitable Business Model
Uncover expert tips on reevaluating pricing, cutting costs, enhancing efficiency, diversifying revenue streams, and more.
Scalability: What It Is and How to Improve It
Scalability is the ability to grow – to flex and adapt production and operations to accommodate a rising demand for products or services. Growth can create unexpected challenges, however. and if a business cannot scale, it could fail because it’s too successful too quickly.
Risky Business: High Customer Concentrations and Your Business Performance
Overreliance on a single customer or vendor isn’t good practice. This article explores the dangers of “putting your eggs in one basket”: loss of market share, reduced bargaining power, increased operating costs, exposure to risk from a single source, and difficulties in meeting demand.