Examples of specific challenges and opportunities we have faced and how we successfully addressed them
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"Acquisition strategy" | Current products have no market
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"Basically on plan" | Revenue shortfall of 25%
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"Considerably ahead of plan" | Hit plan in one of the last three months
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"Core business" | Obsolete product line
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"Currently revising the budget" | Financial plan is total disaster
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"Cyclical industry" | Posted a huge loss last year
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"Entrepreneurial CEO" | Totally uncontrollable, bordering on maniacal
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"Feeding frenzy" | At least one interested new customer
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"Ingredients are there" | Given two years might find a workable strategy
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"Investing heavily in R&D" | Trying desperately to catch the competition
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"Limited downside" | It can't get much worse
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"Long selling cycle" | Yet to find a customer who likes the product
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"Major opportunity" | Last chance
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"Niche strategy" | Small-time player
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"On a manufacturing learning curve" | Can't make the product with positive margins
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"Opportunistic investment strategy" | Absolutely no investment strategy
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"Passive investor" | Phones yearly to see if company is still in business
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"Possibility of slight shortfall" | Revenue shortfall of 50%
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"Reposition the company" | No market for current products
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"Rifle shot approach to a few investors" | You're the only potential investor left
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"Somewhat below plan" | Revenue shortfall of 75%
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"Strategic investor" | Investor will pay a preposterous valuation
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"Too early to tell" | Results to date have been grim
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"Turnaround opportunity" | Lost cause
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"Unique" | No more than six competitors
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"Upgrading the management team" | The organization is in complete disarray
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"Value-added investor" | Generally comes to board meetings but spends most of the time on "emergency" phone calls
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"Volume sensitive" | Massive fixed costs
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"Well below plan" | An outright, unmitigated disaster
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"Window of opportunity" | Without more money, the company is dead
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"Work closely with the management" | Talk to them on the phone once a month
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"Leading company in our industry" | Middle of the pack player
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"Good partners" | Not currently in litigation
