Chapter 3:The Numbers Game

If you’ve ever gone in search of financial help you’ve noticed that a lot of what we hear in personal finance, we as entrepreneurs just can’t use. It makes no sense for us to make a lovely color-coded spreadsheet of all our income and expenses with a nice, stable salary number up top. We wouldn’t even know where to start—the colors, maybe? We require something more, something flexible that takes into account all the moving pieces.

In fact, because of those moving pieces, it’s even more important for us to have our finger on our financial pulse than those with a traditional J-O-B. Remember Bluebird, that stylish 1974 Mercedes with the broken gas gauge and odometer? If that were a garden-variety employed person, when ...

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