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Founder Interview: Richard Lavina Innovating Accounting Services with Taxfyle

The Startup Magazine

Richard Lavina, CPA, Co-Founder and CEO of Taxfyle. TSM: Describe Taxfyle’s product or service in 10 words or less: Richard: Taxfyle is a Service-with-a-Software company that matches taxpayers with licensed CPAs and Enrolled Agents. TSM: With a bit more detail, what does Taxfyle do? TSM: What inspired you to start Taxfyle?

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[INTERVIEW] Mark Attanasio, Toronto Financial Services Executive, Managing Partner Of Hillcrest Merchant Partners

YoungUpstarts

It’s taken the Toronto executive from the world of Big 3 Accounting (as a CPA with PricewaterhouseCoopers in his early career) to Investment Banking(National Bank Financial) and capital markets (co-founding Eight Capital after leading the management buyout of Dundee Capital Markets).

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Maximizing Profits in the Healthcare Staffing Industry by Susanne Mariga

Mike Michalowicz

By focusing on reducing human touches and automating the sales and recruitment process, Angelichio and the Judge Group are able to minimize the cost associated with hiring additional internal staff while meeting their market demand in record time! By maintaining long-term employees, the Healthcare Staffing firm will be more productive.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

We quickly realized the demand for movers in college towns and the demand for flexible jobs for college students. Giving back to the community has always been something I valued, so using my CPA and JD expertise, I knew there was something I could do to make taxes less daunting. 17- For better product performance.

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Episode 39: Cash Flow and Niche Focusing with David Knowles and Kacee Johnson

Mike Michalowicz

Awarded the CPA Practice Advisor Magazine’s “Top 40 Under 40” Award in 2012 and 2013, she is recognized as one of the young professionals leading businesses into the future. Look at what services are in demand and pick a specific target audience. Look at what services are in demand and pick a specific target audience.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

You get increasing growth by optimizing the viral loop , and you get revenue as a side-effect, assuming you have even the most anemic monetization scheme baked into your product. Paid - if your product monetizes customers better than your competitors, you have the opportunity to use your lifetime value advantage to drive growth.

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Seven Steps to Better Board Recruitment

Board Effect

In reality, the organization strives to meet a growing demand for services with restricted funding and increasingly limited resources. It’s possible a CPA aims to augment her financial expertise by leading a strategic planning process, so don’t assume she wants to serve as board treasurer on her personal time.