Caroline Moon
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Jun 11, 2018 positive
A complex startup requires a finance team to manage its operating plan
“In the same way that complex products can really only be built with a strong product team and well-defined product roadmap, To build something complex, like an entire company needs a finance team to manage the company roadmap, also known as an operating plan.”
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Caroline Moon: Founder CEOs need full financial fluency beyond tracking cash burn
“Founder CEOs should be fluent in all aspects of their business, and financial fluency is just as core as anything else a CEO knows, since their financials, and I don't mean just knowing cash burn, represent the state of their business and are something they sh…”
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Caroline Moon defines accounting as a manual ETL process for financial data
“Accounting is just a word that we use to talk about a manual ETL process of translating the money that flowed in and out of your company, whether it's revenue, contracts you signed, invoices you've paid for or have to pay, or payroll, and into a mineable finan…”
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Moon: A bad VP of sales hire costs 18–24 months of runway
“To give you some more context, a VP of sales generally takes on average six to 12 months to ramp, and if along the way you realize you made the wrong hire, it takes three to six months to find a new VP of sales, and then this new VP of sales will take six to 1…”
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Moon: Strategic finance teams manage startup runway and KPIs, not just payroll
“At the core, a great finance team isn't about just doing the basics, and let's call those things payroll and tracking expenses and keeping track of the cash. They also do much more strategic things, like helping define and track the right KPIs to measure the b…”
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Moon: Startups' first in-house finance hire should be a senior executive
“And when it's time to hire your first in-house finance person, make sure it's a pretty senior position like a VP of finance or CFO, as you want to build your organization correctly from the ground up and the head of that team should be the first hire and not t…”
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Caroline Moon: Finance Teams Spot Working Capital Issues Before Cash Crunches
“A strong finance team would have seen the working capital issues well before they became a problem, and they would have worked with the business in order to figure out a good resolution between preserving their own cash and keeping their suppliers happy.”