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I'm always curious what makes you credentialed for this type of business / corporate knowledge. It's not to denigrate this person or their current company, but
by nawgz 4y ago
I'm always curious what makes you credentialed for this type of business / corporate knowledge.
It's not to denigrate this person or their current company, but Causal itself seems to only be at the Series A point in funding, maybe they're working on their Series B. The author himself seems to have no other experience in startups, just some past professional experience. On the flip side, it is true his company seems to have 7 or 8 digits of funding and has a few employees after existing for 4 years, which is probably a pretty strong outcome in startup world.
I perceive this to be the value of YC itself for instance - institutional knowledge of a hard-to-get type.
- refrigerator 4y agoAppreciate the thought-leadership skepticism :) Causal is a financial modelling tool so while we're only Series A, we've spent the last 4 years working with finance teams across all stages (our customers), as well as the wider startup finance ecosystem of accountants, CFOs, VCs. The post is mostly based on that accumulated experience, but of course coloured by our own experience operating at the Seed/Series A stage as well.
- nawgz 4y agoI like that, multiplicative value because you can self-apply the lessons you applied to your product. Thanks for sharing the knowledge then.
- molsongolden 4y agoSkimmed the post and there aren't really any "trust me, I'm experienced" items in there. The opinionated bits have detailed reasoning. I have relevant experience pre-seed through C with a bunch of companies, the only thing that stuck out is that the bookkeeping pricing listed is on the low end. Maybe take the service provider recommendations with a grain of salt but everything else reads like a nice summary.