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Have you done your annual entrepreneurial health check?

NZ Entrepreneur

This means it’s even more important that Boards and owner-operators conduct regular health checks on their business to ensure their operations have a solid foundation. It’s also important they allow the business to position itself for growth, or simply to avoid the pitfalls of financial distress. Governance.

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10 Things the Bank Will Ask When You Need a Business Loan

Up and Running

One of the first things overly-optimistic entrepreneurs discover as they look for funding is that banks don’t fund business plans. So your business has to have hard assets it can pledge to back up a business loan. Business plan. In their defense, it would be against banking law if they did.