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Cost-Saving Tips for Startups: Maximize Your Cash Runway
April 16, 2024

Burkland’s Fractional CFO team shares a list of cost-saving tips that venture-backed startups can employ to optimize their financial resources.

Burkland Fractional CFO Team
Accounting, CFO Insights, Financial Modeling, FP&A, HR, Marketing, Operations

How FP&A Helps Startups Leverage Real-Time Data to Scale Smarter
December 15, 2022

Startups that leverage real-time data for forward-looking Financial Planning & Analysis gain a powerful competitive advantage in the market.

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CFO Insights, Financial Modeling, FP&A, Fundraising, Marketing

How Does FP&A Help Startups Scale?
September 21, 2022

FP&A helps startups scale by leveraging the company’s data for decision making, including data that may be hidden beneath the surface.

Steven Lord
Accounting, Financial Modeling, FP&A, Marketing, Operations

Need More Runway? Five Steps to Extend Cash
August 10, 2022

Look critically at your spend and analyze the trade-off between a growth-at-all-costs approach and a more cash-conscious one.

Steven Lord
Accounting, CFO Insights, Financial Modeling, HR, Marketing, Operations

Reduce SaaS Churn – Strategic Tips for Startups
July 26, 2022

Reduce SaaS churn by fostering a culture that listens to customers and puts their needs at the center. Here are some specific tips to help.

Kate Adams
HR, Marketing, SaaS

Five SaaS sales myths that prevent companies from creating effective sales teams from the start
March 25, 2019

Five SaaS sales myths CEOs should question as they create effective sales organizations that reflect their realities and stage.

Jeff Burkland
Marketing, Operations

Five useful tips startup CEOs can apply to get sales on the right track
November 25, 2018

Make your first meeting a bonding meeting. A few weeks ago we organized an event where Mitch Morando, CEO at Whalr, gave an engaging talk on the five not-so-obvious tips to jumpstart…

Walt Spevak
Marketing

Managing Complexity: The 2 Scenarios of Sales Traction You Need to Plan For
August 16, 2017

No matter your size, you’ll need financial guidance to gain or maintain momentum. Photo courtesy of Silicon Valley entrepreneur Christopher Michel. Medium’s blogger John Cutler wrote an interesting article on startup complexity (Complexity is a Startup Killer. Don’t Grow Up) in which he…

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