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See all →Padel clubs: the boom, and the arithmetic underneath it
Four courts, €420k, and a business that only works if you can fill Tuesday at 11am. The occupancy curve nobody publishes.
30 September 2026 · 12 min read
Capex is not the number. Working capital is.
Almost every plan we see is funded to open and not funded to survive. The months between opening and break-even are where businesses die, and nobody budgets them.
30 September 2026 · 5 min read
What things actually earn: 14 fields, Q3 2026
Gross and net margin, payback and owner hours across fourteen researched fields — the table the rest of the site is built on.
30 September 2026 · 6 min read
Dental clinics: buying a job, or buying a business
One chair is a job with good pay. Four chairs is a business someone will buy. The gap between them is the only thing worth studying.
30 September 2026 · 11 min read
Self-storage: the business that sells you space you already own
A shed, a fence and a payment link. Why the margins are absurd, why the payback is slow, and the one number that decides whether a site works.
30 September 2026 · 9 min read