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One of the main channels of communications between corporations and investors are sell side analysts.  They are useful in any number of ways, including as industry experts, creators of detailed financial models of the companies they cover, entry points to very sophisticated sales forces and as the ones who have a recommendation on your company’s stock. However, how they spend their time is often misunderstood.

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In marketing there is a well-known graph known as the Product Lifecycle Curve, which I’ve set out below.

The graph illustrates how successful products are first brought to market and purchased by early adopters, then go through phases of rapid takeoff and swift growth. Once the product has achieved wide spread acceptance, the growth begins to slows down, eventually reaching a period of maturity. Mature products run their course and inevitably decline sets in.

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In academia, professors almost never express something in clear understandable prose when a jargon filled expression can be used. Hence, the title of today’s post. Pareto Principle is the fancy name academics give to the 80/20 rule; that is, that 80 percent of effects come from 20 percent of the causes, or to put it another way, the few (20 percent) are vital and many (80 percent) are of little consequence.

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