April 2, 2020

“Cash Is King”, especially true during a crisis like today’s. When MCO was introduced, the first thing every business owners did was …. stone for a moment, then start to check their company bank accounts and personal bank accounts to know how long can they survive with the cash they have in the banks. Well,

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March 28, 2020

What is a CRISIS? A crisis is a situation where you are caught by surprise and stuck in a sticky situation where you have totally no clue on how to handle it. Since it’s a surprise, we do not usually have a plan in place that we can activate during the crisis. And you will

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January 28, 2020

As a business consultant to SMEs, very often I receive inquiries to help draft a business plan. 10 out of 10 of these business plans are either to get a loan or to pitch for funding. I always tell them that good numbers (positive indications) in your business plan stand a good chance, but one

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January 14, 2020

Which Type of Entrepreneur are You? After years of engaging with SMEs, and I can safely say that there are basically 3 types of entrepreneurs today: The Cockroaches The Deer The Wolves The cockroaches are the lone rangers. Able to survive in any tough environment, they are the kind to not be shocked even if

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December 10, 2019

Here’s a standard entrepreneurial journey. You have a business idea and you try to run the business on a small scale. Once it starts making some money, you scale it up. If you lose money, you either scale it back down or go back to the drawing board by changing the business idea… right? Some

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