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Showing posts with label Lives of a company. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lives of a company. Show all posts
Tuesday, 26 January 2010

The Company When It's Young: Long on expectations and short on experience. Can grow very fast and High Risk.

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The young company is full of energy, bright ideas, and hope for the future.  It is long on expectations and short on experience.  It has ...

The Company in Middle Age (2): Midlife crisis of Apple

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The company in middle age can have a midlife crisis.   Whatever it's been doing doesn't seem to be working anymore.  It abandons ...

The Company in Middle Age (1): Still growing but not as fast. Occasional Midlife crisis

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Companies that manage to reach middle age are more stable than young companies. They have made a name for themselves and they've lear...
Monday, 25 January 2010

The Company when It's Old (3): Why you might invest in these?

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By now you might be wondering what's the point of investing in a stodgy old company such as IBM, GM, or US Steel?  There are several...

The Company when It's Old (2): Alcoa, GM & IBM

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There's a lesson here that may save you some grief in the future.  No matter how powerful it may be today, a company won't stay on ...

The Company when It's Old (1): Woolworth & US Steel

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Companies that are 20, 30, 50 years old have put their best years behind them.  You can't blame them for getting tired.  They'd do...

Extinct Companies: Some die young, some in middle age. Bankruptcies and Takeovers

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Companies die every year.  Some die young.   They try to go too far too fast on borrowed money they can't pay back, and they crash.  ...