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How to understand your business numbers

If you don’t like numbers (especially business numbers), you’re not alone, but…

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Mike Foster, holding up a giant copy of the book cover, The Financial Times Guide to Starting a Business, written by him
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Are you truly ready to give yourself the start-up audit?

In Chapter Two of The Financial Times Guide to Starting a Business,…

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Mike Foster, holding up a giant copy of the book cover, The Financial Times Guide to Starting a Business, written by him
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Why your entrepreneurial mindset is your #1 start-up asset

Starting a business and in turn developing your entrepreneurial mindset is often…

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Help – My start-up cashflow isn’t right!

A lot of the cashflow difficulties come down to growing too fast to sustain working capital, slow customer payments and higher than expected costs/expenses.

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