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The Smart Way to Use AI

I don’t think the future is about humans versus machines. It’s about learning when to lean on each of them.

For the Simple Numbers 100, Profits Are Improving

Revenue is still hard-earned, but entrepreneurs are controlling what they can control.

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The Financing Worked. Until It Didn’t

Too often, entrepreneurs and their advisors focus on completing the transaction and ignore the cash crunch that is likely to follow.

The Six Stages of Borrower Denial

When times get tough, the credit markets can offer useful options. But there are certain realities that must be faced.

The Offsite We Didn’t Expect

With multiple employees working remotely, we knew it was important to get together. We just didn’t know how important.

Introducing a Dow-Like Index for Entrepreneurial Businesses

At Simple Numbers, the goal was simple: develop a single metric that captures the overall health of the entrepreneurial economy.

I Thought I Knew My Business. AI Proved Otherwise

The ability to analyze nearly a million rows of raw data has exploded some of my core assumptions.

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