Jumpstart Your Startup with Convertible Notes
What are convertible notes? A convertible note is a form of short-term debt that converts into equity (stock) once you raise your first significant round of equity capital, like a…
Finance & Accounting Posts
Why Should Startups Have Financial Forecasts?
Are you ready to dive into your new business idea? Most are. Most thrive from the momentum of creating, failing, learning, and repeat. But there is another side to having…
Should a Startup Hire an Accountant?
Is this your first time starting a business? If so, you probably have a lot of questions about everything. And you might be tempted to contact a firm like ours…
Achieve Your Goals by Measuring Your Efforts
I spent nine years running a US subsidiary of a Germany company. Their obsession (at least the group I worked for) with metrics gave me an appreciation for the power…
Will Your Business Model Deliver?
In this age of the lean startup, minimum viable product, and fail fast, the advice is clear, test everything as soon as possible. Also, do it while making the smallest…
7 Cloud Bookkeeping Mistakes that Startups Make — and How to Avoid Them
Keeping up with bookkeeping and tax obligations can cause even the best of startups to buckle under the pressure. What should be simple, straightforward processes become muddled and complicated when…
Financial Models: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
I’ve seen and designed hundreds of financial models over the years. Let’s talk a little bit about what characterizes a good model and some of the mistakes that can make…
Expenses Entrepreneurs Underestimate or Forget
Starting a new venture still costs real money, even though the price of entry has come down dramatically in the last few decades. For example, I come from a software…
Five Ways to Avoid Tax & Legal Trouble
A frequent concern I hear from aspiring entrepreneurs is: “I have invented a great product, and I want to set up a company so that I can avoid tax and…
5 Things You Need to Know About Financial Forecasting
For start-ups and established businesses alike, there are few planning processes more critical than financial forecasting. Financial forecasting provides proper, well-informed projections of anticipated expenses and revenues, allowing for strategic…