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Planning · · 4 min read
If you don't have a business plan, you don't have a plan
Good businesses close for reasons that have nothing to do with the product. Most of those reasons are preventable, and most of them are arithmetic.
Financing · · 5 min read
What financing actually looks like for a small business
Most owners have one mental model of funding and it came from television. Here is the real map, in the order you should work it.
Contracts & Grants · · 5 min read
Certified, registered, and still not winning work
Certification makes you findable and eligible. It does not make you selectable. One page is usually what decides that.
Operations · · 2 min read
Your lease could close your business before slow sales do
Owners can quote revenue to the dollar and still not know when their lease expires — or what triple net is costing them. That pause is expensive.
Operations · · 6 min read
Operations is where the money is made or lost
Sales problems are loud. Operations problems are quiet, and they are why a business can be busy and somehow not profitable.
Operations · · 5 min read
Read your lease like it's going to be used against you
The largest contract most owners ever sign is the one they understand least — and the one they sign fastest.
Operations · · 3 min read
The compliance calendar nobody hands you
A typical small business owes somebody a filing, a renewal, or a payment on a specific date all year long. Nobody sends the master list.
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