The CFO Behind Basecamp’s Billion Dollar Deal

If you’ve joined a successful startup as CFO, chances are at some point you’ll have to take the reins to manage a merger and/or acquisition. The use of acquisitions to redirect and reshape corporate strategy has never been greater. Many investors today regard buying a company for access to markets, products, technology, or management talent … Continued

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A CFO’s Guide to Venture Capital 

Raising Venture Capital for startups in a volatile economy has become increasingly difficult for hyper-growth tech teams. Only a third of tech companies that receive seed funding make it to a Series A, while other startups succeed, returning their investors’ money many times over.  To pick one historical example, Sequoia Capital reaped forty times the … Continued

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