Startup CFO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company's Finance Function

Matt Blumberg

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Book cover for Startup CFO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company's Finance Function

Startup CFO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company's Finance Function

Startup CFO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company's Finance Function

Matt Blumberg

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Description

You're only a first-time CFO once, but that first time can be a daunting challenge for startup leaders. Without a blueprint or a guide, you're in a tough spot to manage all of the details of finance, set up the accounts and systems, plus build out your team. Startup CFO was written to help the first-time CFO navigate finance challenges and provide tactics and best practices for how you can grow a high-performing function.


Matt Blumberg and Jack Sinclair have decades of finance and leadership experience from founding a company, scaling it, and exiting. They cover a wide range of topics from fundraising, to pricing and valuation, due diligence and corporate documentation, M&A transactions, operational accounting, international operations, strategic finance, and more. The authors share how to collaborate effectively in the executive suite and with functional leaders throughout an organization. As an added bonus, Matt shares CEO-to-CEO advice on what a great CFO looks like, signs that your CFO isn't scaling, and how to engage with the CFO.


Startup CFO will help you pinpoint gaps or weaknesses, turn those into strengths, and help you scale yourself, the finance function, and your organization.

Critical Reviews

"If you are starting a company for the first time, or scaling a company for the first time, or if you have done it before but want to do it better this time, I strongly encourage you to pick up this book and read it. You and your leadership team will be so happy you did that."

--Fred Wilson, Managing Director, Union Square Ventures

"Startup CFO is the ultimate playbook for CFOs looking to scale their function--and themselves as leaders."

--Linda Kozlowski, CEO Blue Apron

"Matt and Jack bring insight to the craft of leading and scaling a robust finance function in a format that makes it easy to find advice on any challenge you face at any given moment in the journey."

--Jeff Lawson, CEO, Twillio

"The best CEOs have strong CFOs. Startup CFO is the perfect companion book for CEOs and CFOs to validate and open up new learning opportunities and shared experiences of the finance function."

--Jenny Lawton, former CXO, Techstars, littleBits, and MakerBot

"Startup CFO is a must-read for any CFO--first-time or otherwise--of a high-growth company. Read this book before your competitors do."

--Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group

Publishing Information

Publisher: Bolster Network
Pub date: 2024-10-10
Length: 140 pages

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