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Apply the right financial techniques
As an MBA graduate, you will be keen to seek out entrepreneurial opportunities that have the potential to grow into profitable businesses. However, taking these ventures and projects from seed to success will often involve smart reinvestment that prioritizes the best interests of your business.
Fortunately, by applying the right financial techniques and maintaining a consistent long-term strategy, real business growth can be more easily achieved. To find out how, keep reading.
A focus on growth is essential in the very earliest stages of a new business, when liquidity is stretched. In this situation, it can require great discipline to push much-needed funds directly back into the business’s growth, particularly if you are intent on organically growing with little or no capital investment.
Inflexibility can actually be an asset in this regard. Ring-fencing a certain percentage of all revenue for reinvestment is an excellent strategy that forces growth into the driving seat of your business. This could mean investing in a marketing strategy, in specialized research, or long-lasting physical assets. These are crucial elements that are needed to help your business thrive in the medium to long-term. Pursuing them with consistently is essential, and can accelerate growth.
If you start your own business after MBA school, you will be presented with a range of options for reinvestment. One of the most straightforward yet purely effective approaches is to look to repay any debts or financial loans that have been accrued in setting up your business as soon as possible.
This approach, while not adding anything tangible to the business’s toolkit, is a strong positive in two regards. It will both ensure your ability to control and nurture the business’s development without the concerns of long-term financial obligations, and will ensure a good credit standing, an essential for any business that knows it will need loans in order to scale up its operations. This approach can yield great benefits in the company’s future, but as graduates of professional MBA programs will attest, it must be carefully managed alongside other needs.
Businesses are built on talent and competency. As any seasoned professional knows, without good people to rely on, it’s hard for an entrepreneur to achieve business growth. Reinvesting in the individuals that make your business work right from the beginning is a sound approach.
This can take the form of adding employee benefit plans, introducing scheduling flexibility or more vacation time for long-term employees, or by providing more generous salaries for workers that make your business run smoothly.
Such an investment can bring multiple positives, allowing you to retain your existing talent and knowledge within the company, while cutting down on the direct costs of re-hiring and re-training. This approach will also ensure that your own tasks will not widen in scope, allowing you to retain your focus on your real goal: growing the business.
Are you ready to found a new business in the most effective way possible?
Contact WU Executive Academy today to learn more about our MBA in Entrepreneurship.