These sure are interesting times. We have all been hit tremendously hard. First the realization that we need to transform our companies to ‘work from home’. Even in this tech town Ottawa, Ontario, ‘work from home’ is not as easy as we thought, and certainly there will be productivity issues resulting. Now our bodies are […]
The COVID-19 is now top of mind for everyone and while businesses ramp up their efforts to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus entrepreneurs are also burdened with having to think fast to ensure business continuity. While governments commit to safeguard against downside financial risks the situation itself and it’s rapid pace of escalation […]
The theme for international women’s day 2020 is #EachforEqual which reminds everyone that it’s up to each of us to create a gender equal world. Our Co-Founder and Co-Chair of Invest Ottawa Susan Richards had an extremely busy and impactful week of March 2-9, 2020. “Our community has a shared goal: to inspire, equip and […]
SaaS entrepreneurs are at an increased risk of being overly distracted by vanity metrics. Early stage investors want to see top line “hockey stick charts” and a host of metrics that may really only be loosely correlated to sound financial performance. As a result, early stage SaaS entrepreneurs are often forced into distraction in order […]
Do you run a service based business and wonder what metrics are the most important to your scaling business? In this post I’m sharing the 10 metrics that we will be tracking monthly at numbercrunch in 2019 as we scale our four year old service business. Every business is unique but if your business is […]
Have you launched a SaaS business and are wondering if you are properly accounting for sales tax and income tax? As a Virtual CFO in Ottawa, Canada I am encountering more and more SaaS businesses that are winging it when it comes to doing business outside of Ontario. For those that think these areas are […]