As a startup leader, it can be incredibly challenging to balance time spent being strategic vs. executing. In particular, when you’re entering a new market or pivoting or evolving your product. Spend too much time on execution, and you’ll get no where fast. Spend too much time on strategy, and you’ll get no where slowly. How do you know you’ve reached the perfect balance? Be strategic for long enough to know which questions you should be asking your market. Then execute until you’ve answered...

Recently, I was chatting with a fellow CFO about the things required to build financial projections for a company. This person shared a belief that's highly common among finance folks: To do any kind of financial forecasting, you first need to build a solid financial operations foundation. The thinking goes... If you don't have excellent data on what's historically happened within the company, Then how could you EVER hope to possible predict what will happy in the future? What could you...

As anyone with bad knees will tell you (🙋🏻♀️), Downhill is not always easier. The same applies to resumes. When hiring, we often look for impressive titles, big brands, and upward career progressions. We associate these with competence and with success. But here's the thing: That's not what those titles signify. Those titles only tell us what other folks have thought about a candidate in the past. Those titles show the opportunities this candidate has been given by others. Those titles tell...