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When Shooting for Growth Can Leave You Broke

By Robert Sher

What is the right way to determine how fast to spend when cash flow is negative? Read about how the confluence of market predictability, execution confidence and forecasting acumen affect good decision making.  These three big variables must be taken into account long before the runway grows short.

Misjudging the market’s reaction to a new product or service is bad news.  Worse, is misjudging your team’s ability to execute on delivering that new product and service.  If either happens in a negative cash flow situation, the result can be deadly.  This post suggests an approach to determining the right pace at which to spend, when more cash is going out than is coming in.

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