Startups move at a very fast pace. In Startup CFO, startup veterans Matt Blumberg and Jack Sinclair provide a blueprint of what excellence looks like and how you can scale the critical finance function.
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 of 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.
"If you are starting a company for the first time, or scaling a company for the first time, or if you have done it before but want to do it better this time, I strongly encourage you to pick up this book and read it. You and your leadership team will be so happy you did that."
--Fred Wilson, Managing Director, Union Square Ventures
"Startup CFO is the ultimate playbook for CFOs looking to scale their function--and themselves as leaders."
--Linda Kozlowski, CEO Blue Apron
"Matt and Jack bring insight to the craft of leading and scaling a robust finance function in a format that makes it easy to find advice on any challenge you face at any given moment in the journey."
--Jeff Lawson, CEO, Twillio
"The best CEOs have strong CFOs. Startup CFO is the perfect companion book for CEOs and CFOs to validate and open up new learning opportunities and shared experiences of the finance function."
--Jenny Lawton, former CXO, Techstars, littleBits, and MakerBot
"Startup CFO is a must-read for any CFO--first-time or otherwise--of a high-growth company. Read this book before your competitors do."
--Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group
Matt Blumberg has spent his entire career creating startups, scaling them, and sharing best practices of what works and what doesn't work for other CEOs and team members in the entrepreneurial community. He is the author of "Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business" (Wiley, 2020), an influential book embraced by entrepreneurs, CEOs, founders, and board of directors in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Startup CEO was an outgrowth of his blog, StartupCEO.com. In 1999, he founded Return Path, an innovative email marketing company, helped it to $100m in revenues, and led it to a successful exit in a strategic sale to Validity in 2019. Along with colleagues from Return Path, Matt started Bolster in 2020, a company focused on helping startups and scaleups grow, develop, and scale their leadership teams and boards. Matt's second book, "Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company's Critical Functions and Teams" (Wiley, 2021), was a collaboration with Bolster's CXOs to provide a blueprint for scaling up each function. Before Return Path, Matt led Marketing, Product Management, and the Internet Group for MovieFone, Inc. (later acquired by AOL). Prior to that, he served as an associate with private equity firm General Atlantic Partners and was a consultant with Mercer Management Consulting. He also cofounded and chairs the board of Path Forward, a nonprofit created and spun out of Return Path. Path Forward's mission is to empower people to restart their careers after time spent focused on caregiving by working with companies offering mid-career internships. Path Forward gives women and men a path to a professional career, while giving companies access to a diverse, untapped talent force. Matt is currently Executive Chair at Bolster. He earned his A.B. from Princeton University. 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.
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