The Creative CFO
Lauren Parla, Counsel & CapitalCFO-level insights for founders building toward their first raise or their first $1M without the finance jargon.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 78 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 21 days ago |
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The Business Audit Every Business Leader Should Run Twice a Year
A CFO Checklist and Legal Audit to Find What's Costing You Before It Becomes a Crisis
Most founders I talk to are so focused on operations that two areas often slip through the cracks: finance and legal. That’s not a coincidence. The two o...
AI Financial Risks Nobody's Talking About
What are the long-term impacts of AI adoption to your numbers?
This week, Joel Salinas from Leadership in Change asked me to guest write on AI adoption this week, from a finance lens specifically. Not “should you adopt AI.” That is quite o...
What It Actually Takes to Get to $1M: A CFO's Honest Breakdown
The cash flow problems, pricing mistakes, and hiring decisions that determine whether you make it to the next stage.
The effort required to make your first dollar is not the same effort required to make $100K or $1M. But once you earn that...
Burn Rate: What Every Founder Needs to Know Before They Need To
What is it and how to calculate it. Paid subscribers get insight into: what VCs actually look for when they review your burn rate.
Welcome back! This week’s post is starting off as a Debbie Downer but by the end you’ll have the insights ne...
15 Things Venture Capitalists Don’t Want Founders to Know
What I learned after a decade working alongside VCs and private equity firms. Read this before you take a meeting.
I spent over a decade sitting across the table from VCs and PE firms on behalf of the companies I worked for, first as an em...
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From balance sheets to bespoke suits, designing a life in Milan as a former financier turned fashion designer.
Legal decisions get more expensive to get wrong as your business grows. I'm a corporate lawyer writing the weekly playbook your lawyer never gave you. Plain English, no retainer, no billable hours.
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