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Previous Issues of Howe’s Bayou

  • Burned Before Earned

    by

    Brad Howe

    If your company operates in an industry in which advance payments are the norm, your need for outside working capital may be reduced. But in business, as in personal life, spending money before you earn it can have unfortunate consequences.

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  • The Interested Advisor

    by

    Brad Howe

    2009 is over. Your company survived. You learned a lot of lessons the hard way, by making some mistakes. You won’t make them again. But there will be other problems, other challenges to staying on track. How do you keep your focus and avoid getting derailed? You go to school with the interested advisor.

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  • Remember How You Got to the Other Side

    by

    Brad Howe

    Abby was captivated. It was as if they were jumping right out of her favorite picture books. Spider monkeys, white-handed gibbons, ring-tailed lemurs, they were all there – each species on its own island. And she was in the front row of the catamaran. It was New Year’s Day, and we were cruising around the…

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  • Thinking Back, and Forth

    by

    Brad Howe

    Most small companies can’t get rid of the Old Year fast enough. Was it survival of the fittest in 2009, or of the most prudent? Were you just lucky, or were some of your decisions really pretty smart? Now that it’s all been said and mostly done, what did the experience of 2009 really teach…

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