Cash flow squeeze: supplier minimums vs customer net terms

Pain point

Suppliers won't ship small orders; customers want to pay later; importers warned *"Cashflow would be the thing I would look into first."*

Signal

Moderate via recurrence across two independent threads (posts 6 and 8), though both are low-vote.

Opportunity

Group-buying co-op for micro-retailers to hit supplier MOQs together (take a % per pooled order), plus a simple cash-conversion-cycle calculator that shows "you will be €X short in week 9." Calculator is trivial; the co-op is ops-heavy but defensible.

Evidence

• €5,000 start
• Importing rookie