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Nov 25, 2024
How to Plan Business Growth Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide
When it comes to developing a robust plan for business growth, understanding the dynamics of a solid business strategy is crucial. So, how to…
Feb 3, 2023
The 2 Best Ways to Make Your Company Special
Specializing in one product or service allows you to focus on delivering that thing better than everyone else. It enables you to hire (or…
Jan 20, 2023
One Tweak That Can INSTANTLY Add Millions to The Value of Your Business
If you’re trying to figure out what your business might be worth, it’s helpful to consider what acquirers are paying for companies like yours…
Dec 2, 2022
Six Power Ratios to Start Tracking Now
Doctors in the developing world measure their progress not by the aggregate number of children who die in childbirth, but by the infant mortality…
Mar 18, 2022
SEVEN POWERFUL RATIOS TO START TRACKING NOW
Doctors in the developing world measure their progress not by the aggregate number of children who die in childbirth but by the infant mortality…
Dec 5, 2021
4 Reasons Why It’s Better to Own a Big Chunk of a Small Company
Is it better to own a big chunk of a small business or a minority stake in a big company? It’s one of the…
Apr 22, 2021
The One Number Owners Need to Stop Focusing On
The value of your business comes down to a single equation: what multiple of your profit is an acquirer willing to pay for your…
Feb 9, 2021
Finding the Break-Even Point
While facilitating the Money and Metrics module of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program this week, I had a few business owners ask…
Oct 11, 2020
How Much To Pay For The Company You Want to Buy (In Six Steps)
After about a decade of sky-high private company valuations, prices could be starting to come back in line with intrinsic values. The spike in…
Jun 4, 2020
Why You Need A Weekly Dashboard
Too often, businesses we start working with don’t understand quantitatively what is going on in their business during a month. It usually isn’t clear…
May 3, 2020
Stress Test Your Business Before It Is Too Late
(10 Simple Steps To Emerging On The Other Side) In every recession we hear calls from the Fed for banks to run stress tests…
Apr 26, 2020
Critical Cash Management Steps In A Crisis
Millions of business owners are going through an unprecedented, challenging and uncertain time. While we may yearn to go back to the pre-Covid world,…