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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

Luckily, we also discovered that certain other metrics, like LTV and CPA were much better than we initially projected. We're starting our new business, fanminder.com, to help small merchants instantly communicate with their customers, and I'm increasingly hearing your name and reading your keen insights.

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Portrait of an Artist

Professor VC

Below is a sample work titled Organic, a watercolor monotype from 2008 that was part of a solo exhibit at the Old Print Gallery in Washington, DC in 2014 and an excerpt from a review of that show by the Washington Post. He was not about to trust his taxes to a CPA or even worse, some computer program called TurboTax.

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Episode 76: Accounting Basics for Entrepreneurs with Jody Padar

Mike Michalowicz

She is CEO and Principal of the New Vision CPA Group, a public accounting firm based in the Chicago area. Jody is the author of “The Radical CPA: New Rules for the Future-Ready Firm,” a book that sparked a movement within the profession. In addition, Jody was recently named among Hubdoc’s Top 50 Cloud Accountants of 2015.

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Transcript of Building a Personalized Connection to Win Ideal Clients

Duct Tape Marketing

Everybody, you name it. Bill Cates: I’m consulting with a CPA firm in the Washington DC area, and they have six vertical markets. I believe the value proposition is really the totality of what we bring to the market, what the value we bring to our prospects, our clients, our suppliers and resources.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

A business that strives for something like this should absolutely be charging money from day one, in order to establish baselines for their two key metrics: CPA (the cost to acquire a new customer) and LTV (the lifetime value of each acquired customer). This is the simplest ecosystem and simplest driver of growth.

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How Women Can Achieve Success In Male Dominated Professions

YoungUpstarts

According to an AICPA 2013 report, for the last 20 years women have represented about 50% of new CPAs in the accounting profession. While the amount of women entering the traditionally male dominated profession has improved significantly, today, women account for only 19% of partners in CPA firms nationwide. My Early Days.