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Your Complete Guide to Subcontracting as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Having consistent cash flow is one of the hardest parts about being self-employed, especially when youre just starting your business. To improve cash flow, I recommend subcontracting as a way to generate income while you continue to build your own business. It can be difficult for veterans, too!

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What MoviePass Can Teach Us About the Future of Subscription Businesses

Harvard Business

Since I last wrote about the company , theater operator AMC entered the subscription market, to early success , and MoviePass took out and paid back a $6 million emergency loan and flip-flopped both its pricing and its product. Its grand vision was to accumulate millions of consumers so that it could monetize them through advertising.

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Considerations for Starting your Consulting Career at a Boutique Firm

Tom Spencer

For our purposes, let’s identify a boutique firm as one that has less than 100 consultants (emphasis on ‘consultants’ and not staff) and operates from at most only a handful of offices (even if those offices are in multiple countries). Notable Considerations. Compensation. There is also much to be said about other types of compensation (e.g.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business

Investors, therefore, look not just for reported revenues but for drivers behind the revenues, especially because digital companies’ operating activities often differ from their revenue-generating activities. The first category should describe the amount spent on supporting current operations.

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AT&T, Time Warner, and What Makes Vertical Mergers Succeed

Harvard Business

AT&T is merely paying — actually, overpaying — for the cash flows from those assets up front. ” A decade ago, analyst Craig Moffett smashed the myth that dumb pipes get in the way of profitability by noting that cable operators remain exclusive providers of high-speed broadband in many parts of the country.

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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

More businesses sold after being advertised on bizbuysell.com than any other year, and 2017 was 25% higher than 2016. Cash flow is king (they don’t require full collateralization, but will take as much as they can). Ten percent buyer down payment (minimum), which frees up cash to grow the business. Pretty small.