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Your CFO: photographer, playground monitor, Oracle, newspaper boy....
When should you hire a CFO? I’ve been asked by many people about when they should hire a CFO. Having a CFO is an integral as having a...
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Why Stress?
I decided that I will make my life easier. My family requires a great deal of my time and I fulfill many roles – short order cook,...
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Getting to Calm: Tips for the Multi Career Parents
I’ve been asked about how to “juggle it all” when you have 3 careers - parenting kids, professional career, and volunteer work. Having a...
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Navigating Your Wild Way Through Your Startup’s Success
This is a repost of a blog that I wrote in 2013. Originally published on Gusto's website. I recently read Wild by Cheryl Strayed, the...
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What’s in your tech stack?
Long ago, I used Excel in college to do some of my papers for my Econ major. Excel was considered to be relatively new at the time. When...
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No Red Lights
I had the privilege of working with Alan Patricof when he was on the board of Pulse (now, Linkedin) and I was the CFO from 2010–2013....
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What's in your tech stack June 2025?
Last year, I published an article on "What's in your finance tech stack?" This time, I am publishing the article with a date as the...
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Unreasonable Hospitality
Last year, we read Will Guidara ’s Unreasonable Hospitality and talked about how we could apply it to MotherDuck . I had posted about...
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How The Best Finance Leaders Optimize Their Days (written by Nicolas Kopp, CEO at Rillet)
Finance leaders — especially those who work at high-growth SaaS companies — are constantly being pulled in a million different...
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