Category: In-Depth Guide

  • Will Your Books Survive a Raise?

    Will Your Books Survive a Raise?

    A five-part guide to diligence-readiness — the order investors actually work through your financials, why revenue recognition breaks most SaaS diligence, where the MRR/ARR waterfall reveals the gap between your deck and your books, how accruals and cutoff determine whether your margin is real, and what it takes to stay diligence-grade every month rather than scrambling for it before a raise.

  • Running Finance for a 3–5 Person Startup (Without a Finance Team)

    Running Finance for a 3–5 Person Startup (Without a Finance Team)

    A five-part guide to running finance at a 3–5 person startup without a dedicated finance team — from what flying blind actually costs, to building a 13-week cash flow model, to the four numbers that predict survival, to reading that model for exactly when to raise, cut, or hire, and finally, knowing when the system you’ve built has been outgrown.