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Working Capital vs. Cash Flow: The Differences and How to Better Manage Them

Up and Running

It’s clear that understanding the financial health of your company will help you make more informed decisions, and that includes differentiating between working capital and cash flow. . Working capital is the overall operating money that your company has available after debts are removed. What is working capital?

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How to Put Personal Money into Your Startup In 6 Steps

The Startup Magazine

It is estimated that at least 80% of all startups rely on personal funds from their founders for operations, albeit in their formative stages. If you have been self-employed, you probably have had episodes where you cannot clearly differentiate between work and personal finances or time. 5. Balance your balance sheet.

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How to Write a Business Plan for a Cannabis Company

Up and Running

With the rise of new cannabis companies, it is important to differentiate your cannabis company from the competition, whether you are opening a farm, extraction operation, or dispensary. What differentiates your cannabis company from the one down the street? Your operations plan. Operations. Extraction operations?

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How to Write a Top-Notch Business Plan for Your Startup

The Startup Magazine

The business model covers whether you’ll be operating online or through a brick-or-mortar store and working internationally, locally, or regionally. It’s vital to know your competition and figure out how your business will differentiate itself from them. Brand differentiation mainly occurs on two fronts: price and quality.

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18 Ways to Make Your Financial Model Stand Out to Investors

David Teten

This allows readers to differentiate your file from all of the other files they receive, and also easily track the evolution of your document as it changes. One of our biggest pet peeves is reviewing an operational model that starts in “Month 1″, and excludes anything that has happened in the past.

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7 Things To Know About Running Your Business

The Startup Magazine

The key to succeeding in competitive marketplaces is differentiation – or simply ‘being unique’. Even if you’re a one-person operation, you need to manage yourself and your time. And, you may have gone into your area of activities knowing there’s a demand for what you offer even though you’re up against stiff competition.

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How to Write a Business Plan

Business Plan Blog

The second research section of your business plan should provide an analysis of the industry in which your business will operate. How to write a Business Plan: Operations Plan 10-40 hours. Your operations plan explains all of the internal systems, procedures and equipment necessary to produce and deliver the product to the customer.