The Float: cash lessons from stories you already know
Cash is your company's most precious asset. We provide the intelligence to help you manage it.
A story, then the part that costs money.
The Float takes a real event, often one you have already read about, and pulls the cash lesson out of it. A bakery that survived thirty years of Manhattan rent. A pay cut that was really a front office decision. What happens after you wire money to an account that was not your vendor's.
The name is the point. The float is the money you lend your customers for free between the day you do the work and the day they pay you. Most small companies are financing someone else without ever calling it that. If you would rather watch it move week by week than read about it, you can see your float 13 weeks out, or shorten the float by collecting sooner.
- One story, one lessonUsually a story you already know. We follow the money through it and stop at the part that applies to your own books.
- Every two weeksRoughly. Long enough to have something worth sending, short enough that you do not forget you signed up.
- Christian Carr and Brad CouchThe two people who built Arclite. Operators first, writing about the thing they spend all day on.
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The last six issues.
The email was real, but the account wasn't.
Your recourse depends entirely on how you paid.
Read on beehiivHe Paid $8.6 Million for $19.4 Million
The number that tells you who is funding who.
Read on beehiivThe 820% APR Loan that Legally Isn't a Loan
A Union Square bakery survived thirty years of Manhattan rent. It couldn't survive this.
Read on beehiivLeBron's Massive Pay Cut - The Cash Lesson
It's not about the player. It's about the front office, and your reserve.
Read on beehiivBlockbuster Made the Right Call
It killed them anyway. The reason is on the balance sheet.
Read on beehiivYour Halftime Report
The first half is done. Here's the cash review that actually matters.
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