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What you Need To Know about your Startup Finances

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What you Need To Know about your Startup Finances

Talk from Founders + Funders in NYC on Nov 8 by Aimee Fearon, CFO at Newsela.

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Transcript

  1. AIMEE FEARON CFO, NEWSELA Startup Finance Founders+Funders

  2. Stages of Startup Finance Pioneers Settlers Town Planners

  3. MONTHLY FINANCIAL CLOSE CAP TABLE A/R + A/P TAXES CASH

    MANAGEMENT PAYROLL Pioneers

  4. RESOURCING Accountant Controller Outsourced firm CHARACTERISTICS TO LOOK FOR Roll

    up sleeves Operational Accounting competency #1 PRIORITY Cash Pioneers STAGE Up to Series A

  5. FORECASTING / BUDGETING SALES ANALYTICS FINANCIAL KPI'S RESOURCE ALLOCATION FUNDRAISE

    (SUPPORT) SYSTEMS +PROCESS Settler

  6. RESOURCING VP Finance Head of Finance CHARACTERISTICS TO LOOK FOR

    Player Coach Forward-thinking Build scalable processes #1 PRIORITY Insights Settlers STAGE Series A-B

  7. Town Planner STRATEGY M&A OKR, DASHBOARDING, METRICS BOARD / INVESTOR

    MANAGEMENT FUNDRAISE (LEAD) SYSTEMS +PROCESS

  8. RESOURCING CFO CHARACTERISTICS TO LOOK FOR Strategic Business Partner #1

    PRIORITY Driving better decisions Town Planner STAGE Series B and beyond

  9. THANK YOU. AIMEE FEARON @AIMEE_FEARON