Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2023

The failure rate is just too high, and startups typically don’t have the assets or revenue stream to back up the loan. Pay particular attention to the financials, and have a CPA friend review for reasonableness before presenting. Demonstrate an ability to repay from revenues, not collateral. Marty Zwilling<

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Silicon Valley CPA Small Business Administration Startup 292

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The failure rate is just too high, and startups typically don’t have the assets or revenue stream to back up the loan. Pay particular attention to the financials, and have a CPA friend review for reasonableness before presenting. Demonstrate an ability to repay from revenues, not collateral. Marty Zwilling.

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Silicon Valley CPA Small Business Administration SBA 431

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2018

The failure rate is just too high, and startups typically don’t have the assets or revenue stream to back up the loan. Pay particular attention to the financials, and have a CPA friend review for reasonableness before presenting. Demonstrate an ability to repay from revenues, not collateral. Marty Zwilling.

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Silicon Valley CPA Small Business Administration SBA 210

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Richard Lavina, CPA, Co-Founder and CEO of Taxfyle. Richard: I went to school for accounting and followed a path after graduation that those of us in that major typically follow: I started working for a CPA firm in Miami. 5000 list , which lists private American companies based on three-year revenue growth between 2016 and 2019.

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CPA Founder Vertical Cofounder 138

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2013

The failure rate is just too high, and startups typically don’t have the assets or revenue stream to back up the loan. Pay particular attention to the financials, and have a CPA friend review for reasonableness before presenting. Demonstrate an ability to repay from revenues, not collateral. Marty Zwilling.

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Entrepreneur Angel Investor Silicon Valley CPA 252

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The failure rate is just too high, and startups typically don’t have the assets or revenue stream to back up the loan. Pay particular attention to the financials, and have a CPA friend review for reasonableness before presenting. Demonstrate an ability to repay from revenues, not collateral. Marty Zwilling.

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Security Angel Investor Silicon Valley CPA 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

One of the most popular and least successful models I see in new business plans for startups is the so-called Facebook model, providing free services to users while collecting revenue from ads to offset costs and grow the business. The advertiser sees it as cost per acquisition (CPA) or pay per performance (PPP).

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CPA Advertising Revenue PPC 120