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Find Your Ideal Job and Build Your Dream Business

Leading Blog

While there are a lot of targeted small business funds that don’t require full collateralization, obtaining funds from your financial institution will be challenging if your debt to equity ratio does not meet their criteria and you don’t have a secondary source of income they can secure against the loan.

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Some Ideas To Help Accelerate Your SWOT Analysis

Six Disciplines

Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Consider exploring these key categories: Strengths and Weaknesses. Marketing (company image, reputation, positioning, market share, growth). Organizational (leadership, accountability, commitment, engagement).

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Ideas To Help Accelerate Your SWOT Analysis

Six Disciplines

Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Consider exploring these key categories: Strengths and Weaknesses. Marketing (company image, reputation, positioning, market share, growth). Organizational (leadership, accountability, commitment, engagement).

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VC Stereotypes About Men and Women Aren’t Supported by Performance Data

Harvard Business Review

” “ He owns a big share of the company, and of course he wants to increase the production volume to raise the profitability and expand.” Debt-to-equity ratio (leverage): the degree to which an entrepreneur exposes his or her business to risks. ” “ He is looking for a company to buy.

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A Refresher on Price Elasticity

Harvard Business Review

Setting the right price for your product or service is hard. Most customers in most markets are sensitive to the price of a product or service, and the assumption is that more people will buy the product or service if it’s cheaper and less will buy it if it’s more expensive.

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A Refresher on Current Ratio

Harvard Business Review

If your business has $2,750 in current assets and owes $1,174 in current liabilities (again, you can pull these figures from your company’s balance sheet) then the current ratio is: (Note that the ratio isn’t usually expressed in a percentage). ” But the ratio can also be too high.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

A hundred years ago, the focus on squeezing every drop of return out of equity capital made great sense. As the industrial revolution progressed, society was enjoying enormous benefits from mass production, which brought former luxuries within middle class reach. The revolution ran on equity capital, which was in short supply. (GM

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