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Due Diligence by Management Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

The investment bankers assess current and projected future cash flows to determine how much debt they can take on, service, and pay down. Jason Oh is a management consulting enthusiast with past experience in helping F500 financial services clients with product management, go-to-market and distribution channel strategy.

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Don’t Drive (Your Business) Over the Curb

Martinka Consulting

Owners travel a road every day and their road has curbs. The industry is shrinking – as in the product is dying a slow death. The industry is shrinking – as in the product is dying a slow death. Possible solution: get other territories or product lines. The wider the road the better.

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Fool Me Once Or Fool Me All The Time

Martinka Consulting

Zweig writes that any form of modified profit isn’t cash flow. I get the feeling many people, even in my industry, don’t understand the difference between profit, Ebitda, and cash flow. Owner “perks” like cell phone, car, travel to conferences, etc. (as For more, just Google the terms Warren Buffet and Ebitda.

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Getting the Deal Done recap

Martinka Consulting

Plus, they put out a fantastic product! In other words, you can’t just pull a number from air and say, “I’ll pay X times EBITDA (or free cash flow, aka profit) for a business. Rather than the usual talk about best practices (nothing wrong with those talks) this talk was definitely from the heart, not the head.

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Every Fast-Growing Company Has to Combat Overload

Harvard Business

But by the 1990s it had run aground: It hadn’t properly developed systems to implement its growth strategy internally, and so that strategy broke down at dozens of points of execution on the front line—with customers, crew, staff on the shore and the company’s travel agent partners. Chaos ensued.

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