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The Latest Questions Small Businesses Are Asking

Up and Running

A study co-sponsored by Crawford International and HR.com in Palo Alto, California in 2006 found that “companies that create adaptive corporate cultures outperform companies with non-adaptive cultures by a factor of 900 to 1 as measured by long term net income and stock price growth.” How can a business owner assess their company culture?

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Maximizing Profits in the Healthcare Staffing Industry by Susanne Mariga

Mike Michalowicz

Bow String Advisors specialize in Mergers and Acquisitions, Raising Capital, and providing Financial and Strategic Advisory services to the Health Care Staffing Industry. . Healthcare staffing agencies should find ways to leverage technology developments and custom tailor it for their needs. About Susanne Mariga.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. paying for travel data from ITA or others (customers acquisition spend is not included in COGS). 2010 Net Income: $8 million. Kayak Software Corporation.

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How I Started, Grew & Sold An E-commerce Business For Quarter Million Dollars ($250,000) – Part 2

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

They had clearly done a net acquisition cost analysis on a per customer basis and decided that they were getting a good deal buying essentially 1,500 customers for $250,000. Because company B bought A, it can now deduct company A’s carry forward losses of $20M from its current year income of $40M, arriving at a net profit of only $20M.

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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Optimization

ConversionXL

3) Customer Acquisition Cost. Your budgetary number for how much you spend to acquire a customer is known as the “ customer acquisition cost ” (CAC). If you are entrepreneur planning your next business, you can’t afford to ignore the cost of customer acquisition. Customer Acquisition Cost. 4) Customer Lifetime Value. .”

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Raising Startup Capital Through Convertible Debt Financing

Business Plan Blog

The return only happens when there is an exit via acquisition or an IPO. The above definition of accredited investors is being currently reviewed by the SEC in terms of current financial thresholds of income and net worth. Arushi Bhandari, CPA, MBA blogs regularly at www.startuptaxaccounting.com. Raising Angel Capital.

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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

Increased investment in Facebook as an engagement/acquisition channel has translated into requests from CEOs, CMOs and other CxOs about the return on that investment. All the things that directly tie to the bottom-line of your company, which you can tie to Net Income driven by digital.

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