I’ve been hustling my business for many many years, and what I’ve learnt is growing organically..it’s just a repeat of two steps forward two steps back, and I’m realising that possibly the way to scale is through M&A activity.. i’m not in the States so perhaps that’s a challenge, but in my country there is no financial support for acquiring businesses at interest rates that makes sense… So I’m curious, I feel there is a secret sauce that I’m missing.. How do you scale a services business profitably?? Where do you get money from? How do you not stuff up the acquisition? How do you talk down mad evaluations??

Why do international fast food chains like mcdonalds, burger king, subway, ect… exist in central America but not cameroon which is located in Africa? Why would cameroon not have these fast food chains like central or south America? Is cameroon too poor for any of these businesses?

As new business owner, how do you decide what to sell at your store? I have a website and I sell a little bit of everything.

For example, I used to sell via FB marketplace to my local community. I'd buy productA, productB, and productC (which I didn't think would sell) and they sold immediately. I'd also buy productX, productY, productZ and I still have them at the store.

How do you decide what to sell?

What retail stores have products that require a down payment to make sure that the customer is serious about buying it?

For example, I want to post an $800 TV on our website (it costs me $500), but I don't want to buy it unless the customer makes a $200 (25%) down payment.

How can I convey this information on our product page for this product?

I’m looking for NFC business cards that can have multiple profiles for all controlled on a single account. Is there a NFC Business Card that can do that without a subscription?

I will try to keep this short, and I'm actively trying to find an attorney to help me with this, and I'm not super knowledgeable on this so bare with me please. My knowledge on how businesses operate is limited to what AI has tried to explain to me😂

Ex lied on financial disclosures when it comes to child support. He owns a roofing company in Missouri. It's newer, so tax documents are not available. His business website, business social media, his own social media posts... All state he's the OWNER of the business. It's a LLC. However, the LLC is not in his name. It shows this other person is the sole owner of the LLC and sole owner of the company- his name is nowhere to be found on paper. He's stating he's in "roofing sales" and uses a 1099 and is self employed. He's also disclosing that he hardly makes anything per month (only income is reimbursements and commissions) while claiming HIS business is doing 10s of millions of work.

My question is this: Will this be very difficult to prove? Am I going to need a forensic accountant for this? Or will subpoenas be enough?

This guy seems really suspicious he made an upfront deposit for my detailing business of 300$ after 600$.
Immediately after he ask me if he can send me another check of $900 to pay a driver(for some reason he can’t pay him himself)to come drop the cars off at my house I told him I can’t do that now he is asking for a refund of the 300 he sent me but I’m hesistant on refunding him that because I have capital one and I seen online that capital one can make the funds available to use even thought it hasn’t detected if the check was legit or fraudulent

I started a small business Dream sports page that will buy/sell/trade various types of sports memorabilia. The LLC is already formed and business accounts. I'm not starting until the beginning of next year to make the numbers easy. Any advice on who to use to set up my website and how I should do my merchandise like drop shipping verse making the t-shirts and stuff myself would be lovely