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Bonus: CFO AMA with Kurtis Hanni — Career Advice, A CFO's Biggest Lies, Pricing Strategy, and More
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Bonus: CFO AMA with Kurtis Hanni — Career Advice, A CFO's Biggest Lies, Pricing Strategy, and More

Kurtis Hanni, SMB CFO and writer of Frameworks & Finance, joins CJ for a special listener mailbag episode of Run the Numbers, where they answer questions about career advice, finance leader lies, pricing strategy tricks, and more. If you’re looking for an ERP platform, check out our sponsor, NetSuite: https://netsuite.com/metrics 

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@KurtisHanni (Kurtis)

@cjgustafson222 (CJ)

@TurpentineMedia (Turpentine)

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TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) Intro

(03:40) What's the backstory of Run the Numbers?

(09:46) What's the biggest lie we tell ourselves as finance leaders?

(14:16) Sponsor: NetSuite

(17:54) What's the best/worst career advice you've ever received?

(24:10) What's the first financial metric to track for your business?

(32:46) What's your take on the current economic landscape and how it might impact startups and small businesses?

(40:10) How is startup finance different from SMB finance?

(46:41) How can you close the books faster?

Discussion about this podcast

Mostly metrics
Run the Numbers
Run the Numbers is a twice-weekly podcast about financial metrics and business models, designed for ambitious people operating tech startups. It's a collection of things host CJ Gustafson (CFO at Partstech and writer of Mostly Metrics) has learned and thought about in the trenches as a tech CFO.
This show is meant to serve as a playbook of sorts for the stuff CJ wishes he knew earlier in his career, both from experience and from copying people smarter than himself.
Topics frequently touch upon Startup SaaS Metrics, Annual Budgeting, Financial Forecasting, Headcount, Equity, Dilution, and Fundraising – and how all of these drive business performance and growth.