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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

In 2010 I deconstructed the filings for GameFly and Quinstreet. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million.

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Monetizing Social Networks: The Four Dominant Business Models and How You Should Implement Them in 2010

venturedig.com

In social networking, they’re ever-changing, backed by eye-opening revenue and have very little documentation. The two major forms of this are CPC (cost per click) and CPA (cost per action or acquisition). Total Estimated Revenue For Year: $200 million. Total Estimated Revenue For Year: $75 million. Yoville-19.8M.

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Small Business and Startups: 5 Tips For Keeping the Books

crowdSPRING Blog

Enter the accounting team: you, your bookkeeper, your CPA, and (sometimes) your tax specialist.Rat. Often these companies will engage an outside tax accountant who specializes in the arcane details of the IRS as well as state departments of revenue or taxation. Ten small business tax planning tips for 2010!

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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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Tax Credits for Startups in New York State

David Teten

For background, we rarely see a CPA come to us with a startup idea. As a result, we offer our portfolio companies a wide range of accounting services, including Accounts Payable/Expenses; Accounts Receivable/Revenue; Payroll; General Ledger; Management Reporting; Annual tax and financial reporting. Photo courtesy Shedboy.).

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

And so the spreadsheet is built with conservative assumptions, including a final revenue target. No matter how low we make the revenue projections for this new product, it’s extremely unlikely that they are achievable. In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics.

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How to Open a Marijuana Dispensary

Up and Running

Marijuana Business Daily projects revenue generated by dispensaries and retail stores to reach between $6.5 Mitch Woolhiser saw a magnificent and unusual business opportunity in the budding marijuana industry in 2010. Mitch Woolhiser dealt with this while searching for space for his dispensary back in 2010.