

Scaling Businesses & The Allocation of Captal
I was recommended a great book to read by my friend Loren Carlson (Chairman of the Boston based CEO Roundtable) – The Outsiders by William N. Thorndike, Jr. subtitled, Eight Unconvential CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success. So you thought...New Developments Financing Small Business
There was a fascinating article in the FT last week concerning Intuit and others using big data to smooth bank lending to small business. The key developments were: 7 Interesting Developments QuickBooks (owned by Intuit) have developed a platform called Quickbooks...Is Your Balance Sheet Fit For Scaling?
Raising venture capital immediately transforms your balance sheet into a platform for scaling. Of course failure is still a high probability. Especially if you execute the wrong things. But that immediate injection of capital allows management to roll out their...
Setting Cash Targets for Credit Control
It seems simple enough but seldom done. The ingredients of a robust set of monthly cash targets for your credit control team: Ensure all customers are clear on your terms of trade. Ensure you have a query/problem resolution system in place to resolve billing problems...