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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! EVEN if you feel the crunch on the finances, you do not want to under-value what you can bring to the table. Creating a simple survey that can be used to better understand issues with a select group of employees.

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Which MBAs Make More: Consultants or Small-Business Owners?

Harvard Business

Some large sample surveys report that MBAs nationwide have an average starting salary of about $100K. That means that the CEO keeps 20% of any cash distribution after the investors’ investment is returned and they are paid a preferred dividend.) million EBITDA company for 4x paying $6 million and using 50% debt financing.

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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! EVEN if you feel the crunch on the finances, you do not want to under-value what you can bring to the table. Creating a simple survey that can be used to better understand issues with a select group of employees.

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Taking Greater Risks to Enjoy Greater Rewards with David Baker: Podcast #14

Consulting Success

David focuses on finances, benchmarking, performance, and positioning of firms, as well as PR, advertising, and more. A successful entrepreneurial enterprise yields profit consistently, while those who find that they are constantly having cash flow problems are, in reality, the ones that are having legitimate business problems.

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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business

In a recent survey from Javelin Research, 56% of SMEs indicated a desire for better digital banking tools. In a separate, forthcoming survey conducted by Oliver Wyman and Fundera (where one of us works), over 60% of small business owners indicated that they would prefer to apply for loans entirely online.

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Due Diligence by Management Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

These are outsourced by PE firms or corporate acquirers to a specialist adviser: lawyers for legal issues, accountants for auditing, and investment bankers for carrying out due diligence from a financing perspective. Financial due diligence involves a lot of financial modelling ( DCF , LBO , NAV ) and deal structuring.

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Small and Young Businesses Are Especially Vulnerable to Extreme Weather

Harvard Business

To better understand businesses’ financial preparation for and management of disasters, my colleagues and I partnered with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to survey firms in the New York area one year after Hurricane Sandy. Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Challenge risk financing conventions.