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"Small entrepreneurs wind up taking big orders that get them in trouble," says Ronald Lowy, a professor in the Department of Business Administration at Eastern Connecticut State University. "They want the big contract, but they're not getting enough money at the front end of it and they don't have the cash reserves to pay workers and pay other bills while they're waiting to get paid themselves. They might show a profit on an accrual basis, but from a cash-flow standpoint, they don't."