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Small Business and Startups: 5 Tips For Keeping the Books

crowdSPRING Blog

Every entrepreneur needs to have a bit of the comptroller in their personality, but relatively few have the skills or patience to learn them. Enter the accounting team: you, your bookkeeper, your CPA, and (sometimes) your tax specialist.Rat. Does your CPA have the right level of industry knowledge to advise you well?

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Entrepreneurial Tips For Launching A Start-Up

YoungUpstarts

This startling statistic has left many aspiring entrepreneurs asking, what distinguishes a successful startup in today’s competitive economy? From the onset, entrepreneurs must be realistic about their ideas and/or products. Entrepreneurs should design their business model around one customer and then build out from there.

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Creating a successful business

The Startup Magazine

In 2012, I launched Guardian Debt Relief to help American consumers eliminate debt and start with the clean financial slate that seems out of reach. A successful CPA with a large international business recently revealed to me that when she retires she wants to become a florist. Hire the best people. Launching a new business.

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Your startup is loved locally, but how do you expand it globally?

The Next Web

As a company that started locally in Canada — and currently making a push to expand into the US market and other countries — we have taken on a number of strategies that will help many entrepreneurs work around the challenges that continue to face small business expansion overseas. Talent-Driven Expansion.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Two reasons. The desire for me to create something meaningful and the choking environment of the corporate culture made me quit my full-time job and become an entrepreneur. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same.

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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Optimization

ConversionXL

If you are entrepreneur planning your next business, you can’t afford to ignore the cost of customer acquisition. At their $39/month price point, this means that a customer generates about $1,800 in lifetime revenue, allowing Constant Contact to make money at a CPA (cost-per-acquisition) of $450.” Hire a data scientist!

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How To Close The Books on Your Startup

mashable.com

World Featured in US & World Videos Featured: Facebook CES 2012 Awards. January 21, 2012 by Nellie Akalp. In the life cycle of an entrepreneur, shutting the doors on a business isn’t necessarily a gloomy situation. Your strength as an entrepreneur and business leader depends heavily on the caliber of your network.

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