The LivePlan Blog

The MVP approach to business partnerships means prioritizing strategic alignment and starting with smaller tests to validate the benefits of the partnership before you go all in.

Clients who haven’t paid you yet can cause cash flow issues. Here’s how to get clients to pay unpaid bills, and what to do if you run into problems.

Your expense budget is one of the keys to good business management. Here’s a detailed guide on how to build an expense budget—including what not to do.

Automation helps small businesses—but it isn’t foolproof. Here are some of the biggest automation fails of 2018, and what you can learn from them.

If your business is going to have employees, you need to create a personnel plan and forecast as part of your business plan. Here’s how to do it.

Do you know what your competition is up to? Here’s why you should know who your competition is and what they’re doing—before drawing up a business plan.

LivePlan has some new updates: You can now copy forecast items, add links to your business plan text, and manage GDPR compliance. Here are the details on what’s new this month.

Having a problem that needs solving can be a great opportunity for your business to grow. But, if you handle it the wrong way, you’ll miss out on the lessons learned. Here are our top tools and techniques to help you catch and solve business problems before they threaten your business’s survival.

Your options for business funding will be different depending on what type of company you’re starting. If you’re looking for information on how to get funding for a business, here are the different types of funding you should consider.

Goal setting is a delicate balance between managing realistic expectations and thinking big. Here’s how to set goals for your business—and actually achieve them.