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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. Seasonal sales fluctuations eat cash. Fluctuating sales means more inventory is required to cover the ups and downs. You can be on budget, and still run out of cash.

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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. Seasonal sales fluctuations eat cash. Fluctuating sales means more inventory is required to cover the ups and downs. You can be on budget, and still run out of cash.

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How to Quit Your Job

Both Sides of the Table

I would take all of the one-on-one conversations that I have with entrepreneurs from the things I’ve learned and just write them up for anybody to read. It might be a VP of Sales, Marketing or Technology. It might be a VP of Sales, Marketing or Technology. The reality is the same. Tomorrow if possible.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

socalTECH

So, how is it you ended up going from a technology infrastructure entrepreneur at SkyPipeline, to the consumer market with Visalus? I had a sales force when I was at SkyPipeline, selling telecom, networking, and broadband wireless products. We went from $9M in sales to $624M in sales in eighteen months, and sold out at 19x EBITDA.

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Freelancers Are The New Entrepreneurs For Services

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Writing specialists. We are becoming a society of entrepreneurs. Marty Zwilling.

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Entrepreneurs Can Thrive on Services or Products

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Writing specialists. We are becoming a society of entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurs can be Specialists or Generalists

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are a few examples: Marketing specialists. As your business starts up, you need marketing programs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a modern “pull” strategy based on social networks, and lead generation. Writing specialists. We are becoming a society of entrepreneurs. Marty Zwilling.