Pro Tip: Planning to Prevent Poor Outcomes

Most decisions business owners make are not right or wrong, they are about more or less risk, more or less opportunity, better or worse for right now. Some decisions though can be truly harmful, and unfortunately some are truly unrecoverable or just very difficult to cope with for a long time. Taking the wrong money, whether through investors or debt funding is one of those decisions. The best way to prevent that from happening is to do proactive liquidity planning. Don’t put you or your business in the position of having to make a bad decision, plan ahead and give yourself more options.

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