Lara Guevara walks founders through four questions to find $50,000 trapped in inventory: total value in your system, months of stock per SKU, what's been idle over 90 days, and what freeing 30% of that value means tomorrow. Open a spreadsheet this weekend and answer before Monday.
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A 30-minute weekend audit that could find you $50K in trapped cash. Grab a coffee. This isn't complicated. It's just 4 questions most founders never ask. Question number 1, what's your total inventory value right now? Not what you think it is, the actual number from your system. Question number 2, how many months of stock do you have for each SKU? Not overall, per SKU, because I guarantee some of them are at 2 months and others are at 10%. Question 3: What percentage of your inventory has been sitting for over 90 days? That's your deadweight. That's cash that's been gone for 3 months with no return. Question number 4, and this is the most important one: If you could free up 30% of your inventory value as cash tomorrow, what would you do with it? Because that answer tells you exactly what your inventory is costing you. Open a spreadsheet, answer those 4 questions before Monday. I'm not kidding, this takes 30 minutes and it will change how you see your business. Do this before Monday. Next week we fix what you find. Save this and follow.