Remove Burn Rate Remove Retention Remove Sales Remove Stock Options
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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

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It freed up Ophir to grow out our sales organization, to work more closely with agencies, to innovate on product and to raise capital. They can show the projections on what this does to burn rate. than to have to deal with healthcare benefit options, vacation policies, health-and-safety regulations and so forth.

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Should Startups Care About Profitability?

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It was a stock option incentive related “expense” but I bet you didn’t know that because in an era where we only read the headlines — they must be a train wreck losing billions. The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. They don’t want high burn rates but they will never fund slow growth.