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Gordon blogs only when he sees a need either among our members or within a business transaction in which he is personally engaged. Content rich and highly insightful, Gordon's blogs are like an advanced course in business success.
You are the end product of a billion years of evolution. There is an unbroken billion year chain of life that has resulted in you. During that billion years, the challenges that faced each succeeding generation are beyond anything you can envision. That lineage of success did not become you so that you could fail now. Your discouragement is a fleeting experience in the eons of time. That simple fact alone should provide you with unwavering confidence that this too shall come to pass and that you too shall prevail. Read more...
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This question is from a Bizar Financing member who want to know how much income he can pay himself from a company he acquirers: Question: If I am looking to make $150,000 to $200,000 in salary a year. What sales size company do I need to buy for me to yield that salary? Answer: The…
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Nothing frustrates a business owner more than an inspection by a government regulator, especially where the written report finds significant violations of hard to understand or vague “breaches of regulations.” Confrontation between an entrepreneur and a regulator is most often followed with the bureaucrat inclined to show the business owner or management how powerful he…
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Every week I receive more than a dozen requests for a personal meeting. Despite my current work week of about 70 hours, it is no longer possible for me to honor the vast majority of these requests. In the last few years, I’ve had to become extremely disciplined about how I invest my time. I'm…
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Below are 27 factors that comprise an algorithm which National Diversified Funding Corporation uses to calculate the purchase price (valuation) of Amazon storefront type companies for sale. Why are these 27 factors important? It's not enough to say Amazon storefront companies are valued at four or five times EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and…
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According to a recent article in the LA Times Business Section, private equity firms are awash with cash for the purchase of companies that either generate substantial cash flow or can be broken up and sold piecemeal for more then the purchase price of the whole. Their cash, in the tens of billions of dollars,…
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Reducing costs and increasing cash flow are top priorities essential to beating the competition. Yet few entrepreneurs pay the same attention to these two key components as they do to increasing sales. When they do, they stand out. It’s how Sam Walton’s Walmart beat K-Mart, Target, Sears, and throngs of local and regional stores to…
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The two most important words in the English language for anyone who wants to know more about anything are “Google Everything”. Actually it was a close race where “Google Everything” barely edged out two other two word phrases for the title. The other phrases were; “Google It” and “Think Google.” No matter which phrase you…
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There is a chasm between the ways wealth was created in the 20th versus the 21st Century. In the 20th, it was essentially invention of devices followed by well managed traditional assets, (real estate, plants, machinery, equipment etc.) leveraging large labor forces. In the 21st, it is development and management of intellectual property leveraged through…
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National Diversified Funding Corporation (NDFC) recently invested in a company founded by a member of our program. The entrepreneur believed he needed more than a $1 MM investment. NDFC’s finance team introduced the company to near a dozen angel and private equity investors where the entrepreneur made a compelling presentation for the future of his…
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