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Asset Light
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Business Model
A business model where the company owns very few capital assets. The company instead uses leases and outsourcing arrangements to operate.
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Jim Grant
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Capital Lease
Operating Lease
Experts
Jim Grant
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Allows the company to focus on what it does best
Examples:
Apple
- it outsources
manufacturing
its products and thus does not have significant assets tied up in
manufacturing