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The Latest Questions Small Businesses Are Asking

Up and Running

A venture feasibility study analyzes an idea from several perspectives: market opportunity, competition, resources available, resource gaps, financial viability, operational issues, intellectual property rights, development timeline and technology needs. Do I need to hire a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) for my small business?

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How to Form a Corporation

Up and Running

Agree upon how much of this business each of your leaders owns, and write that down on slips of paper called “stock certificates”. Consider finding and working with a CPA and a lawyer. The purpose of the bylaws is to outline the basic procedures and operations of your business. Issue stock. Hold your first board meeting.

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

YoungUpstarts

Toronto’s Mark Attanasio has spent some 20 years advising businesses at various stages in their development on what it takes to position themselves for growth – whether it’s through traditional transactional activities like management buyouts and mergers and acquisitions or via a public listing on a Canadian stock exchange.

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Fortifying Profits: Strategies to Shield Your Business from Embezzlement

Duct Tape Marketing

One is you should have an outside, I mean, obviously there are a lot of people that hire CPA, but they really just say, here's my stuff for the taxes in a lot of cases. Todd (12:05): Yeah, so the difference is most people are very familiar with that CPA relationship and their role traditionally and typically is compliance.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

The name arose from the point that as an adviser, we operate as an informal adviser to the public related to dogs – providing the knowledge, medicines, and motivation to enable a healthy environment for dogs and achieve their fullest potential. Stock is the supply of things or supply accumulated, this meaning is connected to our brand.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

Since selling Matt has gone on to become one of the smartest angels I have seen operate. o Their strong skill was online media buying and optimization – they rarely would do CPA deals – mostly buying CPM. Mark: 10% warrant coverage is like stock options. Later they became big business in Financial services lead-gen.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

2010 Operating Income: $16 million. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Interesting to note that Hafner and English own common stock but also made meaningful investments in the Series A & B rounds. One can infer valuations based on per share prices of preferred stock and oustanding common shares (~5.3M