As a startup owner or founder, you may be focusing on a lot of different things to lead your business to success, from product development to market research. But another crucial variable to consider that…
Why is Silicon Valley so biased against women?
Gender disparity in Silicon Valley is topic du jour. So when a few days ago, the Wall Street Journal posted a piece titled “Facebook Blames Lack of Available Talent for Diversity Problem”, nobody was surprised.…
6 Mistakes Founders Make When Raising Funds
Raising money for your startup doesn’t have to be an impenetrable mystery, like whether your fridge light stays on when you shut the door. Every week, I meet people who still haven’t figured it out.…
Sexual Harassment and the lack of an inclusive culture in startups of Silicon Valley
Kalanick’s world melted with one blog post by Susan Fowler. A detailed, dispassionate 2,910-word account by an ex-Uber engineer opened a can of worms for Uber and brought forward the misogynistic culture of the $68b…
8 Pieces of Advice for When Your Startup is Low on Cash
Originally published on Startups.co *** In June 2013, I met the CEO of a data analytics startup here in the Bay Area. They had raised many millions already and I was on a mission to…
Sava360 Interview with Sandeep Shroff, CEO and Co-Founder, myStartUpCFO
Who is Sandeep Shroff? CEO and co-founder of myStartUpCFO Sandeep Shroff is making a name for himself and his startup… and, as you can see, it’s all in the name! myStartUpCFO essentially provides small businesses…
Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?
After speaking with hundreds of CEOs, I realized that burn rate isn’t as Startup101 as I had thought. There are still a lot of things that founders understand incorrectly when it comes to being a…
Are You A Burn Rate Zombie?
India’s Taxi Wars will make a great movie one day. The good guys, however, don’t always win. Sometimes they die before the movie climaxes. Today, the leaders in India’s taxi wars are Uber and Ola.…
Busting Startup Myths: Tracking Financial Metrics is NOT Important
When I was out on lunch with the CEO of an early-stage SaaS startup, I asked him how his company was doing. Quite well, I was told. The revenue is growing month on month, we…