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#417 – Cash Is King

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This episode is all business! Well, not ALL business, Chris also mentions KiCon 2019, which will be taking place in April of 2019 in Chicago. Sign up to give a talk here!

  • Chris gives a terrible account of Thanksgiving, here’s the real history of it.
  • Dave has a new accountant
  • Accounting system
  • ERP systems
  • Net 30
  • Lean manufacturing
  • Forecasting
  • Lines of credit
  • Apple I line of credit
  • DUNS
  • Dave ends up giving lines of credit to advertiser
  • Tindie selling is a great way to get started as a small electronics producer
  • Dave’s former assembler charged 1 cent per joint
  • When bootstrapping a business, the initial profit becomes the cash pad
  • Dave did a video about how to price things
  • 2.5x multiplier
  • MBAs don’t teach about small business normally
  • Lifestyle business
  • Hit by a bus test
  • Dave is treating labs like a hermit crab
  • KiCon is a KiCad user conference happening in April 2019 in Chicago IL
  • New NeoDenUSA video shows how to set up the NeoDen4
  • We are now on Pandora Podcasts! You can apply to be a beta customer.

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Comments

  1. benn686 says

    November 27, 2018 at 2:59 pm

    Is the ‘Scale’ book, the one by Jeff Hoffman?

    • Chris Gammell says

      November 28, 2018 at 10:37 am

      That’s right, this one: https://www.amazon.com/Scale-Seven-Proven-Principles-Business-ebook/dp/B00G3L6LDA/

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