Inflation will shorten your runway. That's one of its main functions. Even if you overcome other disadvantages. Sometimes a single 7.5% mistake with your res

Inflation will shorten your runway. That's one of its main functions. Even if you overcome other disadvantages. Sometimes a single 7.5% mistake with your resources can be deadly, now that's built in. As a simple rule of thumb you will have to work more than 7.5% as effectively and do it in 92.5% of the time to improve your likeihood of meeting former expectations. Now with a cyclical business having not that many cycles behind you, that's not so simple. If it's a yearly cycle that 12-18 months could shrink to less than a year and that would mean you only really get one chance to make it or break it.