As a startup owner or founder, you may be focusing on a lot of different things to lead your business to success, from product development to market research. But another crucial variable to consider that…
All you need to know about the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Forgiveness
The COVID-19 outbreak has impacted economies and businesses all around the world. With shrunk revenues, piling taxes, on-going expenses and increasing liabilities, business owners are struggling for survival and to adjust to the new normal.…
Firing Yourself: The key to survive a Startup – Part 2
In my last article, I spoke about how as a startup founder, you are bad at delegating, and end up struggling to manage your time because you do too many tasks yourself that should have…
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…
When is it a good time to pivot?
“Ask most entrepreneurs who have decided to pivot and they will tell you that they wish they had made the decision sooner.” ― Eric Ries Unfortunately for me, I don't own a time machine.…
Understanding Mary Meeker’s Report on the Internet in 5 minutes!
Mary Meeker, venture capitalist and Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, publishes a report every year - since 1995 - on the state of the Internet. Her 2018 report was presented at the Code…
Top 5 Reasons Why Promising Startups Fail
In the world of startups, death is a recurrent theme. 9 out of 10 startups crash and, invariably, money surfaces in all these cases. Many startups go bust either due to their inability to scale…
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…
Why is Silicon Valley so biased against women?
Gender disparity in Silicon Valley is topic du jour. So when a few days ago, the Wall Street Journal posted a piece titled “Facebook Blames Lack of Available Talent for Diversity Problem”, nobody was surprised.…
