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How to Calculate Business Runway Without Fooling Yourself
How to calculate business runway: cash divided by net burn is the easy part. Here are the five steps and the traps that make a confident number wrong by months.
OLVASD EL ▸Payment Plan With a Client: 5 Must-Haves in Writing
Payment plan with a client: ask what they can pay, agree dated instalments in writing, protect new work, and read what a refusal tells you. No more silence.
OLVASD EL ▸What Goes in a Pitch Deck: The Eight Slides That Matter
What goes in a pitch deck: eight sections in the standard order, one point per slide, ten to fifteen slides, depth in an appendix. Evidence beats adjectives
OLVASD EL ▸What Is Business Runway? The Number That Sets Deadlines
What is business runway? It is how many months of cash you have left, and it sets every other deadline. Here is what it changes and why a guessed number hurts.
OLVASD EL ▸Late Paying Client? Change the Deal, Not the Reminders
Late paying client? Stop sending reminders and change the deal. Shorter terms, advance payment, a price for the wait, or walk away. Say it as a policy.
OLVASD EL ▸How to Decide How Much to Ask Investors For: The Chain
How to decide how much to ask investors for: pick the milestone, count the months, cost them, add slack. A number that sounds normal says you have no plan
OLVASD EL ▸How to Chase a Late Payment Without Losing the Client
How to chase a late payment without burning the client: check your invoice, nudge, set a date, call, then state the consequence. The ladder, step by step.
OLVASD EL ▸How to Choose Which Investors to Pitch: Cut the Wrong Ones
How to choose which investors to pitch: cut anyone who could never invest, give every name a reason and order the list so you improve first. Then work on access
OLVASD EL ▸How to Write an Invoice Reminder Ladder You Will Use
How to write an invoice reminder ladder: every stage decided in advance, the early rungs automated, and a call before the pile of emails. Written once, calmly.
OLVASD EL ▸How to Write a One Sentence Pitch: The Test That Matters
How to write a one sentence pitch: use I help X do Y so that Z, drop every superlative and test it on a stranger. The frame, the failures and a Monday task
OLVASD EL ▸Client Credit Check: Vet a Client in Twenty Minutes
Client credit check in twenty minutes: three questions, a ceiling per client, and the terms to change when you cannot verify. Do it before you extend credit.
OLVASD EL ▸What Investors Look for in a Pitch: The Risk That Kills It
What investors look for in a pitch is not a good product but the one risk that kills the deal. Here is what each question checks, and how a solo founder replies
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