Straight answers for people running businesses.
No fluff, no jargon, no gated PDFs. What actually works, from people who have done it.
Planning
If you don't have a business plan, you don't have a plan
Good businesses close for reasons that have nothing to do with the product. Most of those reasons are preventable, and most of them are arithmetic.
4 min read
Financing
What financing actually looks like for a small business
Most owners have one mental model of funding and it came from television. Here is the real map, in the order you should work it.
5 min read
Contracts & Grants
Certified, registered, and still not winning work
Certification makes you findable and eligible. It does not make you selectable. One page is usually what decides that.
5 min read
Operations
Your lease could close your business before slow sales do
Owners can quote revenue to the dollar and still not know when their lease expires — or what triple net is costing them. That pause is expensive.
2 min read
Operations
Operations is where the money is made or lost
Sales problems are loud. Operations problems are quiet, and they are why a business can be busy and somehow not profitable.
6 min read