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Containing Growth Chaos: Five Things To Do When Your Company Is On The Upswing

YoungUpstarts

Manage cash flow. At my company, our cash position is reviewed every week, come rain or shine. This top-of-mind awareness and intentionality with our cash keep us agile and enable us to take on new opportunities. You’ll be inundated with sales pitches, lame template emails, unsolicited voicemails and more.

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Create Structure out of the Gate and You’ll Thank Yourself Later

Feld Thoughts

A month later, another email update goes out to the investors – the team has decided to pivot based on feedback and they are super excited about the new direction and once they have the product updated to capture the new, bigger opportunity, it’s going be great. The team wants to make a little more progress first.

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Is your CFO a bookkeeper or a strategist?

Berkonomics

Looking at it in that light, there is a check and balance for all departments and individuals ordering materials of any size that affect the cash position and profitability of the company. We members of the board never saw, (never asked) and the CFO never mentioned the balance sheet and cash position.

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If it can be counted, the CFO owns it.

Berkonomics

Looking at it that way, there is a check and balance for all departments and individuals ordering materials of any size that affect the cash position and profitability of the company. We never saw, and he never mentioned the balance sheet and cash position.

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a16z Podcast: Growth in Turbulent Times

Ben's Blog

So rather than writing a long email, I can quickly record a video and send it to somebody. But I also see founders who are in an amazing cash position, even though they’re not experiencing massive tailwinds, doing very aggressive things. An example of this that you see a lot of companies doing is like Loom.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

I think every company’s portfolio is different, so they’re all different sizes, different stages, different geographies, different cash positions, and different market leadership positions. . People send me these long emails about what they want to see in the product. . What do we build next? .

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

I should mention that Fog Creek is just starting, were a new company, and we dont have a lot of cash. They will as soon as we can afford them, but I dont want any misunderstandings :) As time goes on and our cash position becomes stronger, these benefits will start to kick in. That means that these benefits havent kicked in yet.