Conserving cash in a startup company

You are starting a new marketing company, have been able to raise $500,000 "seed capital." What are some ways to conserve cash?

This note describes a strategic approach to doing industry analysis and gives some helpful Web pages with industry profiles.

Whether as part of strategic planning, marketing planning, or business plan development, students and entrepreneurs often have not been trained in how to do a cogent, complete industry analysis.

These notes describe some ideas--or tests--the entrepreneur can make when developing a request for and source of funding.

Many entrepreneurs, particularly those folks who want to start new ventures know they need to raise money but don't know how to develop a funding proposal or to locate a source of funding.

This essay addresses ideas and gives some Internet resources that can help the student entrepreneur with the research into buying a business.

How can the student/entrepreneur go about locating a promising business to buy? Where can he or she get help in identifying businesses that are or may be for sale? Apart from expert merger & acquisition firms like The DAK Group in Rochelle Park, New Jersey, the prospective business owner can get much useful information on a variety of Internet Web pages. The attached essay presents a partial list of those Web pages.

This essay addresses ideas and gives some Internet resources that can help the student entrepreneur with the research into buying a business.

How can the student/entrepreneur go about locating a promising business to buy? Where can he or she get help in identifying businesses that are or may be for sale? Apart from expert merger & acquisition firms like The DAK Group in Rochelle Park, New Jersey, the prospective business owner can get much useful information on a variety of Internet Web pages. The attached essay presents a partial list of those Web pages.