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[INTERVIEW] Mark Attanasio, Toronto Financial Services Executive, Managing Partner Of Hillcrest Merchant Partners

YoungUpstarts

It’s taken the Toronto executive from the world of Big 3 Accounting (as a CPA with PricewaterhouseCoopers in his early career) to Investment Banking(National Bank Financial) and capital markets (co-founding Eight Capital after leading the management buyout of Dundee Capital Markets). You also talk about challenges to entrepreneurs.

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What a CFO Can Do For Your Agency

Duct Tape Marketing

Jason is a Co-founder of Thriveal, a firm that helps entrepreneurial CPA firms connect, learn and grow. He’s also the CEO of Blumer CPAs where they serve as an advisory firm for the design marketing and creative agency services niches. Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell or just peek at the latest sales news.

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10 Things the Bank Will Ask When You Need a Business Loan

Up and Running

I was really disappointed when I needed my company’s first commercial bank loan to finance receivables of more than $1 million—from well-known distributors no less—and we ended up having to sign a lien on our family home to get the loan. See Also Small Business Owners, Start Tracking Your Financial Metrics. Do you find this daunting?

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

We’re looking at our lean business planning is about strategy, tactics, concrete specifics including milestones, metrics, tasks and schedule, and essential numbers to run a business, all of which lead to managing cash flow. That’s the sales forecast, the spending forecast and the cash flow. It is not a document.

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5 Critical Things Entrepreneurs Need to Know about Managing Their Company's Finances.

Small Business Force

In early stage companies (and even some later stage or mature ones), there is no one area where most entrepreneurs and small business owners are lacking in just basic fundamentals, than in dealing with their company's finances and financial management. Learn to understand basic accounting and formalize sooner rather than later.

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Episode 9: Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry | The Bcast

Up and Running

” “What about sales and expense forecasts, and doing planned versus actual so you can manage cash flow?” You really want to have metrics or measurement, which I think is one of the real areas for good creativity and management. It’s not just sales in dollars and expenses in dollars. Anybody can do it.

Lean 60
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Excellent Analytics Tip #17: Calculate Customer Lifetime Value

Occam's Razor

But as we drill deeper into worse performing media, or pay out for lower-volume-lower-relevance search terms, our cost per sale gradually rises. There is a better way to analyze your acquisition strategy than simply using Conversion Rates or Cost Per Acquisition (CPA). Using Life Time Value might be a much better idea.

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