Mike’s situation might seem different from the kinds of collaborations you typically consider in your job. He was proposing a significant business initiative, one that would involve dozens of people and millions of dollars in investment, and one that would potentially yield a business worth hundreds of millions of dollars. What about collaborations that are simpler and smaller, and where the stakes are lower? Is it still desirable and practical to calculate a Collaboration Premium in these situations? Absolutely. You may not be able to assign numbers, but you can still use this logic and do a
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