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  • The Fractional CFO – Global Finance Magazine

    The Fractional CFO – Global Finance Magazine

    Growing numbers of experienced chief financial officers are abandoning the corporate grind to take freelance roles for multiple clients—whether in parallel or on a serial basis. “The demand for [freelance] professional CFOs has approximately doubled” in recent years, says Eusebi Llensa, co-founder and CEO of Outvise, a Barcelona-based marketplace for high-end independent contractors. Indie CFOs…

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  • Leveraging Some Right-Brained Thinking In a Left-Brained World to Turn Creative Gifts Into Profits

    Leveraging Some Right-Brained Thinking In a Left-Brained World to Turn Creative Gifts Into Profits

    At Third Road Management, we have had the privilege of collaborating with many businesses and nonprofits spanning diverse industries, ownership structures, tenures and financial statuses. Through our journey, we have gathered insights that we believe can benefit business leaders beyond our current clientele. Today, we aim to shed light on the beneficial leveraging of some…

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  • Spin the “Wheel of Fortune”…a Simple Exercise  to Identify Revenue Opportunities

    Spin the “Wheel of Fortune”…a Simple Exercise to Identify Revenue Opportunities

    As simple as that sounds, in practice a lack of time, energy and focus can leave businesses in a rut of fresh ideas to keep the new sales coming in.

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  • Measuring KPI’s: the Fewest Number of Battles Required to Win the War

    Measuring KPI’s: the Fewest Number of Battles Required to Win the War

    There are many great resources (books, videos, blogs, etc.) out there that might be of additional assistance to you on this topic, but for our purposes we are going to try to keep this short to the main points.

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  • How to Create Value and Mitigate Risk Through a Business Succession Plan

    How to Create Value and Mitigate Risk Through a Business Succession Plan

    Essentially a business succession plan is a pre-mapped plan for how your business should continue operating in the event of your retirement, incapacitation or death. Here are three reasons why creating a business succession plan is important:

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  • Thinking About Selling Your Business in a Few Years? Here are 5 Steps You Should Act Upon Today.

    Thinking About Selling Your Business in a Few Years? Here are 5 Steps You Should Act Upon Today.

    For the majority of business owners the focus is upon maximizing the valuation of the business to capture their long-term investment of time and money in the business they built to provide retirement security. But how does a business owner maximize the value of the business?

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  • The Business Start-Up Primer You’ve Been Asking For

    The Business Start-Up Primer You’ve Been Asking For

    Hello Friends!  We frequently receive inquiries from aspiring entrepreneurs about the process that is involved with starting a small business, which can be daunting if you’ve never done it before or do not know the steps involved.  We’ve therefore decided to share with you all the steps that we know, and while not completely exhaustive…

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  • The Top 5 Things That Businesses Can Learn From Non-Profits

    The Top 5 Things That Businesses Can Learn From Non-Profits

    Today at lunch I realized that April 15, 2016 marks the 3-year anniversary of my resignation from a Wall Street institutional fixed income sales desk to join the staff of an 18-month old church.  Throughout the course of those 3 years, the most common question that I’ve been asked is “Do you miss it?”  In…

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  • Our EIDL & PPP Loan Applications are Submitted…Now What?

    Our EIDL & PPP Loan Applications are Submitted…Now What?

    Every business is in a unique position, so there is no way to develop a “one size fits all” description of what every business should do in these turbulent social and economic times; however, here’s a list of ideas that we think you can consider to help lead your organization through this crisis.

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