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Get a Room: Finding Opportunities in the $18B Boutique Hotel Industry
It’s been nearly 5 years since Marriott Hotels & Resorts shook up the travel world by announcing its intention to acquire Starwood, its high-end hotel competitor.
When the deal closed in the fall of 2016 for $13.6B, Marriott had created the world’s largest branded hotel chain, accounting for 1 in 7 hotel rooms in North America.
While the recent spread of coronavirus has put a chill on the hotel and travel industry, the long-term macro trends that motivated Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson to complete the Starwood acquisition remains.
Breaking Into the $15B Executive Recruiting Industry
Over the past few weeks, the topic of the executive search and recruiting industry has sparked quite a bit of interest within the Trends community.
Cash is King: Using the Cash Conversion Cycle to Finance Your Operations
In 2014, the Harvard Business Review published an oft-cited article titled “At Amazon, It’s All About Cash Flow.” The article set out to address the sentiment that Amazon “didn’t make any profit.”
In analyzing Amazon, the article argues that observers should focus on the e-commerce company’s free cash flow rather than its net profit, which doesn’t properly take into account investments in capital goods.
The article continues by identifying the best metric to measure a company’s ability to generate cash: the cash conversion cycle (CCC).
How One Company Made Billions from Manufactured Homes and RV Parks
Billionaire Sam Zell is considered the father of the modern real estate industry in the United States.
AppFolio Shows That Niche SaaS Ideas Are Big Business
Let’s play a quick game of “Which one of these does not belong?” Facebook. Amazon. Netflix. Google (Alphabet). AppFolio.