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Educational guides to the money side of running (and owning) a business — compound growth, index funds vs stock picking, diversification when your business is your biggest asset, reading a P&L, bookkeeping, and how small online businesses are valued and bought. Education, not personalized financial advice.

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  1. A personal balance sheet dominated by one large business position, with small diversified holdings growing alongside it

    Investing & finance · Jun 11, 2026

    Diversifying when your business is your biggest asset

    A personal-balance-sheet approach for owner-operators: why the business, your income, and often your skills are all one correlated position, what concentration risk actually costs, and the practical sequence for building uncorrelated wealth alongside a company you love.

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  2. A profit stream splitting into four channels: operating reserve, owner pay, reinvestment, and outside investments

    Investing & finance · Jun 11, 2026

    Reinvest or pay yourself? A profit allocation framework for small business owners

    A deliberate approach to the owner's allocation decision: why both extremes fail, how to read the business's real marginal return on reinvestment, the case for paying yourself a boring fixed salary, and a percentage-based waterfall that ends the monthly renegotiation.

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  3. Two cash buffers — one for the business, one personal — absorbing the shocks of irregular income and unexpected costs

    Investing & finance · Jun 2, 2026

    A cash buffer and emergency fund for business owners

    Why owners need buffers more than employees, sizing a business reserve and a personal one, where to keep the money, and how to build it from irregular income. Educational, not personalized financial advice.

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  4. A diagram splitting one commingled money pool into separate clean business and personal accounts

    Investing & finance · May 30, 2026

    Separating business and personal finances (and why it matters)

    Why commingling business and personal money causes tax, legal, and bookkeeping problems, and the practical steps — separate account, business card, clean records — to keep them apart.

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  5. Each sale split at the moment it arrives — a slice routed to a separate tax account, the rest to the business — so the tax bill is already funded when it comes due

    Investing & finance · May 30, 2026

    Setting aside money for taxes when you run a small business

    Why running your own business changes how tax works, why the bill blindsides people, the set-aside percentage habit, the separate-account method, quarterly thinking, and treating tax money as never yours. Educational, not personalized tax advice.

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  6. A tidy bookkeeping system: separated accounts, categorized transactions, filed receipts, and a monthly close checklist

    Investing & finance · Mar 19, 2026

    Bookkeeping before you need an accountant: minimum viable books for a small business

    The record-keeping floor every small business needs from day one: why a separate account is non-negotiable, a category scheme you will actually maintain, the receipts habit that survives tax season, and the one-hour monthly close that keeps the books boring forever.

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  7. An income statement descending from revenue through cost of goods, gross profit, operating expenses, to net profit, annotated like a chart

    Investing & finance · Mar 12, 2026

    Reading a P&L for non-accountants: what each line is trying to tell you

    A guided tour down the income statement for operators with no accounting background: revenue and what counts as it, gross profit as the engine reading, the operating expense story, and the handful of ratios that turn a monthly report into actual decisions.

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