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…
There is NOTHING more expensive than a cheap accountant!
There is one thing that I tell every client and employee I work with. Bad information can kill you. Think I’m exaggerating? Ask the guys who blindly followed Apple Maps in Australia and landed in…
The (Ir)relevance of Unit Economics
How's your new business coming along? Good? Why do you say that? Probably because as rational human beings, we intuitively use ratios to measure things. Businesses tend to operate the same way. You look at…
Funding Downturn And What It Means For Entrepreneurs
Last night, I was sifting through my inbox, when I noticed a pattern. Mail 5: CEO of a $1m seed funded company informing me that they’re shutting down shop since neither the Series A nor…
