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What Online Games Teach About Surviving a Business Downturn
Every business faces hard times, and the way a business weathers a downturn often decides whether it survives.
Borrowing to grow faster is one of the oldest gambles in business, able to accelerate a venture or sink it depending on how it goes.
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Every business faces hard times, and the way a business weathers a downturn often decides whether it survives.
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Video games with virtual economies, where players earn, spend, save, and invest in-game currency, quietly teach genuine lessons...
Funding Readiness
A small business loan application rarely fails because the numbers are wrong.
Funding Readiness
A client who runs a small landscaping business came to me last year puzzled by a loan rejection.
Funding Readiness
Most small business owners walk into a loan application focused on one number: their credit score.
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Every new venture faces the same early problem, needing resources to get started before it can generate any of its own.
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Three people who have sat on different sides of a funding decision: a former underwriter who spent a decade deciding which loan applications got approved, a small business owner who has borrowed through a term loan, two lines of credit, and one merchant cash advance she still warns people about, and a bookkeeper who sees a client's cash flow problems months before the owner does. Every article carries a byline, and nothing runs that the writer has not actually dealt with.