Funding Readiness
Managing Your Time During a Business Loan Application
A small business loan application rarely fails because the numbers are wrong.
Video games with virtual economies, where players earn, spend, save, and invest in-game currency, quietly teach genuine lessons about managing money.
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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.
Cash Flow Management
For a huge number of small businesses, the vehicle is not a convenience, it is the business.
Games
Many video games simulate business and whole economies with surprising depth, from supply and demand to competition, trade, and...
Alternative Funding
Some businesses tie their money up in a way that makes funding a very particular problem.
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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.