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Business Prenup: What To Do Before You Start A Company With A Partner

YoungUpstarts

Zyla, managing director of Acuitas, Inc., A CPA provides input on tax structure and metrics, and assists with due diligence related to your industry. Common provisions range from the inclusion of an agreed upon valuation multiples, such as a multiple of earnings, to the process for the retention of a valuation expert.

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Metrics: A double edged sword

The Equity Kicker

Calculating an accurate CPA by channel is a good example of something that sounds simple, but is notoriously difficult in practice. The problem is that they forget quickly, particularly when the team grows and the people managing to the proxy weren’t there when the conversation about it being a proxy was had in the first place.

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Advice From a Successful Female Business Owner: “Don’t Wait Until You are at the Top of Your Game to Get Covered”

Women Entrepreneurs Can

in 2004 and has grown her project management company into a success that makes $1 million in revenue annually. That’s when, Stephens’ mentor and CPA introduced her to the concept of a captive. She has more than 10 years of risk management and insurance experience. But successful business owners will urge – don’t let this be you.

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Why Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Is A Thing Of The Past And What You Should Do About It

YoungUpstarts

Making this switch will allow companies and employees to save up to $12,000 per employee per year, while offering a better employee health benefit program for recruiting and retention purposes. And how long will it take other professionals, such as CPAs and insurance brokers, to realize the abundant opportunities now available to them?

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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25 Entrepreneurs Share Their #1 Goal for 2020

Hearpreneur

My #1 Goal for this coming year is to delegate 100% of my business management. As a CPA, I think it’s important to bring awareness to taxes and accounting for small business owners. Employee retention has really become a problem, and companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars when it comes to turnover. 4- Visibility.

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October Accelerator All Access— Reduced Carbon Footprints, Curated Clothing Rentals, 3D Learning…

Austin Startup

They provide what you need to launch and manage your own subscription business, whether you already have one in place or if you’re a transactional business that wants to build a subscription model from scratch. SimiDigi promotes retention by helping their customers implement an engaging, effective and top notch training program.