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How never to run out of cash!   

Berkonomics

The four basic dials to turn: There are four basic ways to increase the cash position of a company: 1) inject cash through borrowing or investment, 2) decrease spending or payments on debt, (3) increase efficiency of operations, and 4) increase revenues or advance payments from customers. Lets examine the decreases in spending first.

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Things Will Be Different

This is going to be BIG.

It felt like things would never be the same. We said we’d never forget, but, in all honesty, we kind of did. People lost homes and businesses—banks blew up—but then we went on an 11-year bull market run that sent unemployment down to historic lows. I remember looking at other people on the street the day after 9/11.

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Tariffs Are Hurting My Business--Should I Cut Expenses?

Red Rocket

This post will help you figure out how best to navigate these choppy waters. Although it may raise revenues for the government in the short run, it raises the prices of goods and services that are imported from the countries in which tariffs are imposed. Why is This Happening? Tariffs are typically very bad for the economy.

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Both Things Can Be True: Bias and Bad Fundraising Advice

This is going to be BIG.

I reached out to about 15-20 other investors, of which about half were interested in taking a meeting. I reached out to about 15-20 other investors, of which about half were interested in taking a meeting. These are all of the things I heard from a founder that I recently backed. She was pitching for a pre-seed round of $400k.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

Both Sides of the Table

But if everybody is looking for me to make their decisions we’ll never get anything done. This is part of my Startup Advice series. I had a picture in the office of my first company with the logo above and the capital letters JFDI. (In You are constantly faced with decisions and there is always incomplete information.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

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Undoubtedly the code sucked, but at least he got something up and running. HackNY is a terrific example of how academics should be inspiring innovation. Business plan competitions are the air guitar championships of the startup world. ” It’s true. Step #2: Pitch investors. What ever happened to “build it”?

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