Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2011

One of the biggest red flags I see in many Internet-related business plans today is advertising as the initial revenue stream, or a key part of it. The advertiser side is called cost per action (CPA) or cost per lead (CPL). The most challenging time is your first couple of years, when your site is unknown, and your page-views are low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

In this more popular model these days, advertisers do not pay for each appearance of the ad, but only when a user clicks on an ad and is redirected to the advertiser website. Cost per action (CPA). That business model doesn’t compute in the startup stage, but that’s another story. Marty Zwilling.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2018

In order to grow and scale a business effectively, entrepreneurs need to answer the “why” question up front and be able to understand fundamental economic drivers behind why their concept is lucrative and essential to the market. Understand the economics of your business. Clearly articulate your vision.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2014

If you value peace of mind; if you’d like to focus on growing a business rather than researching tax laws; and if you don’t find that hemorrhaging money into Uncle Sam’s coffers is a sound business model, then DIY taxes is not for you. Jonathan Barsade is founder and CEO of Exactor, Inc.,

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 22, 2011

Today when we measure our Cost Per Acquisition (CPA) for our campaigns (Search, Email, Affiliate, whatever), we just think of the macro-conversion and, perhaps worse, we think only of that session / visit. CPA might sound huge (or not depending on your margin), but on the surface it seems a lot. David's idea is simple and genius.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 15, 2018

And that’s when I quit my job as a CPA to start NTC. How did you come up with your business name? . Adjectives, verbs, nouns, and any word we could come up with that had to do with my business concept. Any advice you would give to entrepreneurs and business owners?

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Berkonomics

APRIL 17, 2014

Companies looking to raise between $100,000 and $500,000 must provide “reviewed” financials, which means they have to pay a CPA to check them. Companies looking to raise over $500,000 must provide full-blown audited financial statements, prepared by a CPA. What are the disadvantages?

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Our name was so disconnected from our business model that we were in the midst of a protracted and expensive name change initiative (along with a small army of consultants), at the time we sold Expertcity to Citrix. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

There is an inherent conflict in a consultant’s business model and the needs of a startup. John is currently a partner at Rincon Venture Partners , a venture capital firm investing in early stage web-based businesses, and is a Co-Founder of RevUpNet , a performance-based online marketing agency. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

I guess one of the things to talk about is how someone might maybe use business model canvas first and then the lean plan. You don’t need a CPA. You do need these simple estimates to be able to manage your business well. There seems to be a lot of questions.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 11, 2016

Cyndi Thomason, president and founder of Bookskeep, has channeled her energetic nature and passion for her work into the perfect business model for assisting small businesses, entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations. Welcome to Episode 101 of the Profit First Podcast! Our Guests. Links: www.bookskeep.com. Backed by a B.A.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

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.” Calculating LTV depends on your business model. ” Be careful giving this too much weight, though: sometimes LTV metrics lie.

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Up and Running

JUNE 19, 2015

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. Jonathan: Have you seen any resistance on your end for people who don’t feel like the cloud is secure enough or is that not something that you guys run in to?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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andrewchenblog.com

JANUARY 28, 2010

To become profitable using a freemium business model, this simple equation must hold true: Lifetime value > Cost per acquisition + Cost of service (paying & free) Said in plain english, the lifetime value of your paying customers needs to be greater than the cost it took to acquire them, plus, the cost servicing all users (free or paying).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 30, 2025

The Financial Reality: While franchising offers a lower-risk business model, profitability depends on location, operations, and marketing innovation. And then we facilitate that introduction along with a number of other tools that first time or any business buyer needs. entity formation, lending, finding the right CPA, etc.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Those of you that have had the opportunity to go to college, I am quite sure that you probably know someone who is a CPA and someone who is a lawyer and you want to add those two people to this kitchen cabinet as well because you need professional advice.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

ER: We wanted to drive people directly to our website from the beginning, avoiding sites like Etsy to sell our work, and that has proven to be a successful business model for us. As for accounting and bookkeeping, I leave all of that in the capable hands of my CPA.

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Up and Running

JULY 29, 2016

It’s a completely different business model. In fact, as these companies form, merge, or sell, the first action is usually to separate or spin off the service aspect of the business (caretaking, meals, and so on) from the underlying real estate.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

One way to conceive of our goal in an early-stage venture is to incrementally “fill in the blanks&# for the business model that we think will one day power our startup. For example, say that your business model calls for a 4% conversion rate – as ours did initially at IMVU.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

This is not a comment on health professionals or on CPA practitioners. Crowdsourcing appears to be the new business model. – these are just examples and these professionals all provide extremely valuable services, to say the least. But their work is not personal to them, not most of the time, anyway.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Three, I’m a book keeper, accountant or CPA and other. I’m an entrepreneur or in the startup stage of a business. Two, I’m a small business owner or manager. Three, I’m a bookkeeper, accountant or CPA or other. I’ll say that one more time. This is number one. What best describes you?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Professionally, I am a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), may also be called a Chartered Accountant (CA) on your side of the globe, a Finance Charter-holder and a Certified Financial Planner. I attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a top ten business program year-in year-out and love to pretend to brag about it.

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