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Ask for the Cash: Convince Your Customers to Pay You in Advance

Growth Institute

He would put down the cash required to get the parts and inventory to make the computers, and then wait for customer sales. This however meant a lot of cash was swallowed up into inventory without knowing when the next sale would come in. Before long, his company ran short of cash and almost shut down as a result.

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It’s Time For Leaders To Rethink The Way Their Companies Make Capital Expenditures

Chief Executive

Instead, when a given site or plant makes a capex request, that request is judged only in terms of the anticipated change in cash flow of making—or not making—the investment in isolation. These teams must include experts from engineering, supply chain management, raw material procurement, controlling, marketing and sales.

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Entrepreneurs' Biggest Sales Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

Once the company is up and running, most founders obsess over perfecting the product or service, and perhaps devote energy to secondary tasks such as building a website. Too often, there's a task that's far down this list of priorities that deserves to be much higher: Making the company's first sale. Be Choosy for a Strategic Buyer.

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Entrepreneurs' Biggest Sales Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

Once the company is up and running, most founders obsess over perfecting the product or service, and perhaps devote energy to secondary tasks such as building a website. Too often, there's a task that's far down this list of priorities that deserves to be much higher: Making the company's first sale. Be Choosy for a Strategic Buyer.

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Looking For Growth? First, Define Your Market

Chief Executive

That is not necessarily true for all businesses—it’s totally fine to own and run a small, cash flow-positive company. There’s a common adage that you need at least a billion-dollar market to make an exciting business. Windows became the focus, and OS/2 became a dud because of Microsoft’s focus on their own OS.

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559 | How To Get More Priorities Done

Chris LoCutro

That email that comes in pops into your inbox while you're focused on something important, like maybe you're a salesperson, and you're focusing on trying to close some sales, keep some momentum going, and then you get momentum going. Well, if you're a part of that energy, then guess what the team's going to start not doing really well.

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How U.S. Businesses Can Succeed in India in 2015

Harvard Business Review

India love first peaked in July 2008 when India’s government of the time risked its very survival in support of a nuclear energy deal led by Washington. Boeing is America’s largest exporter and the only American defense contractor to have crossed $2 billion in sales to India. Why do I need five in India?”