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    What are you using for Financial Forecasting

    The odd thing is I'm basing my forecast on pretty simple historic data - customer numbers, revenue and sales volumes by month over 20 years. It has the same data and uses far more complex modelling. It's a hyper intelligent baby.
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    What are you using for Financial Forecasting

    I've been running two different AI forecasts against my own for two years now; the AI is laughably wrong. I'm going to ask them why at the end of the year.
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    Clean energy startup idea from Finland

    You design microgrids. You see a potential market here in the UK and you're here to "find some business partner and associates from the UK". Fair enough. But are you really looking for funding for your start-up?
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    Clean energy startup idea from Finland

    That's the name of the product - what EXACTLY is it? Tell us what it is, what it does and why it's better than its competitors. Are you making it yourself? Is it patented? Just what is you business model?
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    Clean energy startup idea from Finland

    Ok, you think you've identified a market, so what is your actual product?
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    'Can I just...' is killing me!

    Ok, but you're making this far too personal, your customers really shouldn't know anything about your medical problems and it won't make any difference to them when their next last minute problem happens (or if it does, it'll make them think that they need to be looking elsewhere, especially if...
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    'Can I just...' is killing me!

    I think you just showed us why it really does need to be that easy. You either need to be charging a realistic rate and have processes for last minute orders or you need to refuse the business. Where you are now is not sustainable.
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    'Can I just...' is killing me!

    But what are you going to do to prevent collapsing back into the same pattern?
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    'Can I just...' is killing me!

    Wouldn't a four week shut down could lose you a lot of customers? And wouldn't you be in the same mess 6 month's later if they stuck with you?
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    What are you using for Financial Forecasting

    Excel plus 20 years of data and experience. AI will produce forecasts from your data using various statistical models but I’ve found them pretty inaccurate. It probably depends on your business and how much historical data you have.
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    Goldmine for finding new clients?

    I was meaning your ability to automate the process of finding and collating the data from the various sources so as to quickly and cheaply produce a weekly targeted list. Is this what you are able to do? If so I suspect there's a market for it. So long as it's legal and you can find a way of...
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    Goldmine for finding new clients?

    Solicitors and accountants pass them on and if it goes to a home address where it's either read or binned by the director regardless. We are writing to everyone regardless of whether they need our products but that doesn't matter if it's cheap. Simple fact is that that you either find a cheap...
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    Goldmine for finding new clients?

    Of course, seems an obvious approach. We test marketed it for 3 months, sent several thousand personalised letters. Not one single response.
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    VOIP alternative to BT Cloud Voice Express

    This is difficult as BT being BT do everything they can to trap you into their services - even though it's now possible to separate your Broadband from your voice service, they still hang on in there. If you move your phone away from BT digital voice (port your number) it ceases the broadband...
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    Looking for legal advice

    We've seen loads of these appalling deals. They're always 7 years and they're always tied into nasty finance leases and they're always a swine to get out of- you generally have to make it very obvious that you're cutting the cord one way or another and do a deal. In your case you might be lucky...
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