Start-Up Firms – If you build it, will they come?

Portrait

It is as routine as sunrise, a new company is founded on a product idea, believed by the Founder to be eagerly embraced by the market. After 6 months has passed, with little revenue produced, the Founder, investors, and employees are crushed by debt. You can see them in the coffee shop lamenting their situation [...]

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StartUp Firms – Sales Volumes disappointing?

Blank Sales Order

The economy revealing a critical sales problem? it is certainly more difficult to sell in a tough economy and the lessor skilled sales people will struggle. What are you going to do? Expenses continue to rise and at your burn rate, your cash situation will become critical? What are your options? Slash expenses – cut [...]

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Startup mortality

Failure

The fatality rate for new businesses is dreadful. Often it is not the surprises that doom a start up, it is usually the things already known. About half of all start-up firms fail in the first year. Surviving that, many remaining will hit a wall sometime between the 2nd and 5th year. Climbing over that [...]

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