Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2023

Pay particular attention to the financials, and have a CPA friend review for reasonableness before presenting. They have contacts with the more “startup friendly” banks in your area, like Silicon Valley Bank, and might even be able to arrange a “loan guarantee” if you meet these criteria.

Silicon Valley 292

Silicon Valley CPA Small Business Administration Startup 292

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Pay particular attention to the financials, and have a CPA friend review for reasonableness before presenting. They have contacts with the more “startup friendly” banks in your area, like Silicon Valley Bank, and might even be able to arrange a “loan guarantee” if you meet these criteria.

Silicon Valley 431

Silicon Valley CPA Small Business Administration SBA 431

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

She’s opening a small deli in an office park in the Silicon Valley. You don’t need a CPA. I’m going to skip from where I was at tactics and go straight into an example specifically of what Sabrina is saying here. This is Magda. You don’t need an MBA to make these simple estimates.

Lean 60

Lean Business Plan Video Software Review 60

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Pay particular attention to the financials, and have a CPA friend review for reasonableness before presenting. They have contacts with the more “startup friendly” banks in your area, like Silicon Valley Bank, and might even be able to arrange a “loan guarantee” if you meet these criteria.

Silicon Valley 210

Silicon Valley CPA Small Business Administration SBA 210

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2013

Pay particular attention to the financials, and have a CPA friend review for reasonableness before presenting. They have contacts with the more “startup friendly” banks in your area, like Silicon Valley Bank, and might even be able to arrange a “loan guarantee” if you meet these criteria.

Entrepreneur 252

Entrepreneur Angel Investor Silicon Valley CPA 252

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Pay particular attention to the financials, and have a CPA friend review for reasonableness before presenting. They have contacts with the more “startup friendly” banks in your area, like Silicon Valley Bank, and might even be able to arrange a “loan guarantee” if you meet these criteria.

Security 120

Security Angel Investor Silicon Valley CPA 120

Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2012

You don’t need to be an MBA or CPA to develop business plan financials. Footnote: my older brother, who was a very successful prosecutor before he retired, a fighter or white-collar criminals in the Silicon Valley, once proclaimed to me: “double-entry bookkeeping is the most important invention of western civilization.”

Silicon Valley 72

Silicon Valley CPA Business Plan Sales 72

Up and Running

JUNE 19, 2015

If I was Travis Kalanick, I would have been on my 4th venture and I would have been doing the Silicon Valley thing for many, many years now. I had a conversation with this CPA recently who’s probably in his late 50s and I’ve mentioned QuickBooks for example, he was talking about QuickBooks.

Cloud 60

Cloud Small Business Silicon Valley Media 60

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Three, I’m a book keeper, accountant or CPA and other. Three, I’m a bookkeeper, accountant or CPA or other. We’re building a True SaaS company in Boise, Idaho, not in Silicon Valley or not in New York. I’ll say that one more time. This is number one. What best describes you? It’s weird.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

ConversionXL

APRIL 6, 2016

Growth hacking came from Silicon Valley, where people do not trust marketers. Increase LTV –> higher CPA. Everyone is very excited about growth hacking, but they’re focused on “silver bullet” tactics. No great company was ever built on the back of a listicle. If you’re not retaining users, growth (WAUs) will stall.

Retention 48

Retention Algorithm Software Review Conversion 48