You’re only a first-time CFO once, but that first time can be a daunting challenge for startup leaders. Without a blueprint or a guide, you’re in a tough spot to manage all the details of finance, set up the accounts and systems, plus build out your team. Startup CFO was written to help the first-time CFO navigate finance challenges and provide tactics and best practices for how you can grow a high-performing function.
Matt Blumberg and Jack Sinclair have decades of finance and leadership experience from founding a company, scaling it, and exiting. They cover a wide range of topics from fundraising, to pricing and valuation, due diligence and corporate documentation, M&A transactions, operational accounting, international operations, strategic finance, and more. The authors share how to collaborate effectively in the executive suite and with functional leaders throughout an organization. As an added bonus, Matt shares CEO-to-CEO advice on what a great CFO looks like, signs that your CFO isn’t scaling, and how to engage with the CFO.
Startup CFO will help you pinpoint gaps or weaknesses, turn those into strengths, and help you scale yourself, the finance function, and your organization.
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Foreword by Scott Dorsey
Introduction by Matt Blumberg
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
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Jack Sinclair is an experienced Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer with over 20 years in startups and scaleups, including Return Path, Stack Overflow, and Bolster. Jack began his career at Stern Stewart as an analyst but quickly figured out he enjoyed startups and scaleups and has since cofounded Return Path and Bolster. Jack contributed to ‘Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams’ (Wiley, 2021), sharing his experience, tips, and best practices for CFOs to scale up the finance function. Jack earned a BS in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.