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What Tycoon Games Teach About Borrowing to Grow
Borrowing money to grow a business is one of the oldest and riskiest moves in commerce, and tycoon games model it with...
Some online games run economies so large and complex that they suffer the same disasters as real ones: runaway inflation, market crashes, speculative bubbles, even bank runs.
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Borrowing money to grow a business is one of the oldest and riskiest moves in commerce, and tycoon games model it with...
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Borrowing to grow faster is one of the oldest gambles in business, able to accelerate a venture or sink it depending on how it...
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Every business faces downturns, and surviving them is a different skill from thriving in good times.
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Some online games have economies so developed that they behave like real ones, complete with inflation, markets, scams, and...
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.
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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.