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In this course, you’ll learn how compelling blogs, videos, podcasts, and other media can reach customers and drive sales. You’ll also learn steps for creating an effective content marketing plan, and some important ways to measure its impact and success.
Content marketing is a essential digital marketing strategy for companies looking to provide relevant and useful information to support your community and attract new customers.
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Sustainable Innovation in Times of Disruption: Choices for a Better Society
There are opportunities for progress all around us. The key is to innovate on these opportunities sustainably.
To help identify most effective path forward, you'll need to gain a global perspective to these challenges in an open discussion. How can Japan and the world take action to create a more sustainable, innovative world? Where do you fit in?
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Social Media & Digital Communications: Impact on Global Public Opinion
Social and digital media have dominated the communications industry for decades. But it's no secret that social media has the power to sway public opinion, and the way in which many companies use these platforms could be seen as manipulative.
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Discover what top media and communications experts have to say.
CAGE Distance Framework
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Servant Leadership
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Strategy: Creating Value Inside Your Company
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Strategy: Understanding the External Environment
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Using Japanese Values to Thrive in Global Business
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Marketing: Reaching Your Target
Every company works hard to get its products into the hands of customers. Are you doing everything you can to compete? In this course, you’ll find a winning formula to turn a product idea into real sales. Follow along through the fundamentals of the marketing mix and see how companies successfully bring products to market.
Basic Accounting: Financial Analysis
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Career Anchors
What drives you to be good at your job?
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Leadership with Passion through Kokorozashi
The key ingredient to success? Passion.
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They say “you have to spend money to make money,” but what if you have a really good idea to make money, but no money to spend? Well, that’s where venture capital comes in, basically.
Many major companies of the web 2.0 era like Facebook and Netflix have been born this way—it all starts with a dream and laptop…and it all ends with a couple million in the bank and a highly-profitable corporate shell of what once was.
Venture Capital Explained
So how can venture capital help you get from a WeWork office to a yacht party? Well, generally speaking, there’s three types of venture capital.
Pre-seed funding
Pre-seed venture capital is the earliest stage of funding, when the company is still little-more than a pitch deck. That’s why it’s called pre-seed, there’s literally nothing there to grow—at least for now.
At this point, founders may seek investment to kickstart the process of creating their business from scratch.
Seed funding
Seed funding refers to the process of seeking investment when the company itself does actually exist, but only in its earliest stages. It’s preparing to launch its first product like a seed sprouting from the soil.
Founders will seek out investors at this stage because they need funds to survive before they’re able to produce their own products and revenue streams—it’s sort of like miracle grow for startups.
Early stage funding
Early stage funding happens once a company’s product has already launched. Cash injections help boost production and promote the growth of the company beyond what it could do on its own, kind of like a tomato plant growing on a trestle.
Man, all of this financial backing sounds amazing! But where does this cash actually come from? I mean, money doesn’t just fall from the sky….unless…
Angel Investors Explained
An angel investor, also known as an HWNI (high net worth individual…which is…way less miraculous sounding) is basically a super rich person, or group of super rich people, with a passion for entrepreneurship.
Most angel investors have successfully started their own businesses, or have, at the very least, successfully ran someone else’s business. They then move on to supporting other entrepreneurs with piles of cash to get them started—but this ain’t charity. This is capitalism.
Angel investors will hear startup pitches and then offer up wads of cash in return for specific portions of the company, you know, like shark tank.
This is all in a bid that the company will eventually IPO—or go public, and once that happens, angel investors—and hopefully the founders, will get a massive return on their initial investment.
From there, they’ll either stick around to build the company further or gracefully exit, allowing a new guard to step in and run the show from there.
So yeah, venture capital is basically gambling… but it’s gambling on dreams! So that’s nice, right?
Pros and Cons of Venture Capitol
Well, it can be. But like anything else, there’s no guaranteed success in the world of venture capital. So there’s some important things to consider before going all in.
There’s the obvious benefit of receiving a ton of money before you have anything more than an idea to show for it, but the less value you have to provide upfront, the higher portion of your company you’ll have to offer up to investors before you even get started.
At the same time, it’s not uncommon for startup founders to lose more and more creative control as investors inject more and more cash into the company. Investors will want to ensure they see a return on their investment, which could lead to disagreements within the creative process.
And while partaking in venture capital is a great way to network with successful business people, you may find that your angel investors are more keen to see you exit after an IPO rather than stick around and grow the company you started long term.
At the end of the day, venture capital is an important part of modern business strategy, and a worthwhile pursuit for hopeful entrepreneurs and rich people looking to get richer alike.
Just remember that while you may need to spend money to make money, there’s no guarantee you’ll actually make any more money after spending it…and that’s venture capital, basically.