#business strategy

How to place a RevOps team, write MQL and SQL definitions as a contract, size pipeline coverage from stage win rates, and keep CRM data clean for forecasting.

Long-horizon royalty financing: tiered, capped, and perpetual deals, biopharma and franchise examples, GAAP treatment, and cost against equity.

How growth consumes working capital: DSO, DIO, and DPO worked through, early-payment discounts, supplier finance disclosure, and HP, Nike, and Walmart figures.

Succession planning for owners: the Connelly buy-sell trap, 2026 SBA seller note rules, ESOP and installment sale tax rules, and what small businesses sell for.

A practical post-merger integration guide: how far to integrate, a day-one checklist, synergy tracking with one-time costs, retention, and IT migration risk.

The 2025 law restored R&D expensing. How the Section 41 credit works, ASC vs regular math, the $500,000 payroll offset, and 2026 Form 6765 rules.

How to judge a predictive model by what acting on it earns: precision at your cutoff, break-even math, uplift and holdouts, leakage, drift, legal limits.

How companies earn from data in 2026: internal use cases, data products and pricing math, contract rights, de-identification, and new data broker rules.

Most companies use AI but few see profit impact. How to score use cases, decide build vs buy, and measure savings that are real cash, with a worked example.

Size business debt with DSCR and leverage multiples, choose fixed or floating with SOFR near 3.9%, keep covenant headroom, and run a rate-shock test.

How to use AI in strategic decisions: scenario simulation, red-teaming plans, and forecast tracking, plus the biases AI adds and how to check for them.

How to pick processes to automate, a payback table with stated assumptions, September 2026 pricing for Zapier, Make, n8n and Power Automate, and failure modes.