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Three questions to answer about your COVID response

Berkonomics

But that good news will not help you if you run out of money during the time it takes for these to happen. Are you salespeople making few if any sales because your prospective customers are distracted by their own problems? Everything will recover. Stocks will climb again. COVID will become a word used in the past tense.

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Interview with Minnie Ingersoll, TenOneTen Ventures

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It's not necessarily to be the sales person, but to be able to sell me on the vision. We had to do a reduction-in-force and layoff early in our career, and I thought we were done. For me, being able to name it, and talk about it, has been incredibly helpful. What do you look for in entrepreneurs? That's not any one thing.

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TorreyPines Therapeutics Hires Investment Banker

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TorreyPines said that Merriman Curhan Ford will help the firm assist in evaluating "strategic options," including sale of the company or its assets. The hiring of the bank follows the layoff of most of the firm's employees earlier this month.

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TorreyPines Therapeutics Looks For Buyer

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TorreyPines said that Merriman Curhan Ford will help the firm assist in evaluating "strategic options," including sale of the company or its assets. The hiring of the bank follows the layoff of most of the firm's employees earlier this month.

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Leaping off the cliff: Making your business virtual

Berkonomics

These same CEOs sit in their corner offices and email the COO in the next–door office and call their VP of Sales rather than walking down the hall. Overnight, just about every company went into a hiring freeze and massive layoffs dominated the news. In just over eighteen months, we were on track to double in size.

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10 Cash-Flow Surprises That Could Kill Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, you can’t predict everything, but writing down what you know will identify existing problems sooner, and allow other team members to help. Neither banks nor investors will help you on this one. Seasonal sales fluctuations eat cash. Fluctuating sales means more inventory is required to cover the ups and downs.

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Is Your Startup Growing Too Quickly For Cash Flow?

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, you can’t predict everything, but writing down what you know will identify existing problems sooner, and allow other team members to help. Neither banks nor investors will help you on this one. Seasonal sales fluctuations eat cash. Fluctuating sales means more inventory is required to cover the ups and downs.

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