One of the most precarious and overwhelming challenges faced by startups and small businesses is to remain cash positive. After all, you have set up the business with an aim to grow as quickly as possible. But the difficult balancing act between growth needs vs various recurring costs like salaries, infrastructure cost, operational costs etc builds itself up into a vicious cycle with paucity of cash staring at you on every turn. Breaking the vicious cycle Most businesses try to break this cycle by cutting down on expenditure on activities and areas that seems wasteful like marketing and advertising. But this course of action leads to even more pain for the companies as cutting down on marketing spend results in business growth getting stifled leading to less revenue and consequently more budget cuts. This scenario need not be repeated in your business as you can break this vicious cycle by doing a bit of judicious marketin...