When choosing a financial services partner, two critical factors often get overlooked: platform flexibility and data ownership. While Pilot and Bench lock you into their systems, myStartUpCFO puts you in control of your financial data…
Firing Yourself: The Key To Survive a Startup
If you're a business owner, chances are you’re a little neurotic. I was, too. (Some clients might argue that I still am!) When you started the company, you were juggling seven different balls at once…
Startup Founder Burnout is real – Here are 3 innovative steps to win against it
Startup founder burnout is real. Most founders ignore it. Even less talk about it. The results are disastrous - because no startup can outlive its founder’s burnout. It is like cutting off the head of…
The Beginning of an Inclusive Startup
Last week, I talked about how Silicon Valley and the tech industry, in general, is biased against women. It was to battle this that myStartUpCFO was started. In August 2013, we began our financial and…
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.…
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.…