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Navigating the Startup Ecosystem: How Accountants Can Thrive in the High-Growth Tech Space | Marc Orchard

Today’s recording is direct from the Tropical Innovation Festival, #TIF2024, in Cairns. In this podcast, Marc Orchard, CEO of Planet Startup, discusses the role of fractional CFOs in supporting high-growth tech companies. The highlights of this episode include: - Tackling the challenges of serving early-stage companies with complex needs. - Emphasising the need for upskilling [...]

2024-07-26T01:39:50+10:00July 25th, 2024|0 Comments

Building Your Startup’s Profile with Media | TIF24

Today, I’m sharing an insightful discussion on how startups can effectively build their profiles through media. In this podcast, I bring a panel session entitled “Building Your Startup's Profile with Media”. This was recorded at the 2024 Tropical Innovation Festival, which is held in Cairns in June. The introduction was done by the lovely [...]

2024-07-22T02:39:29+10:00July 18th, 2024|0 Comments

Scaling to 7 Figure: Enhancing Your Fractional CFO Services | Michael King

"[But] isn't it true that if you had a client that could explain how every single decision they make in their business impacts revenue, gross profit, net profit and cash, you would have a significantly smarter, better-informed client base than probably anybody else?". – Michael King, Founder of The CFO Accelerator Today I’m speaking [...]

2024-07-22T01:56:03+10:00July 15th, 2024|0 Comments

Embrace the Power of ‘No’: 9 Polite Ways to Decline New Clients

If you need to hear it, it's perfectly acceptable to say 'No'. No is a complete sentence. To activate my own 'No' muscle, I had to write it on a post it note and pin it on my monitor, cause I always naturally wanted to help. This would result in crazy unhealthy situations, like staying [...]

2024-07-29T04:37:01+10:00July 11th, 2024|0 Comments

In financial terms, what does success look like for a founder?

Ultimately not failing is a success metric, but if we flip it, we can learn from failure. This is an extremely broad term. Success for a 'founder' of a startup will look like an exit, and more often than not a 10x return on investment. Founder Success is all driven by actually getting an exit [...]

2024-07-08T10:17:50+10:00July 8th, 2024|0 Comments

Celebrating Success: My ‘Thought Leader of the Year’ Award

My accounting heart is bursting with joy. At the 'Oscars' for the accounting industry, I'm grateful to have won in the category “Thought Leader of the Year”. Thank you to Cat Williams-Treloar for handing out the award, and Sharon McClafferty for a killer acceptance speech! I was unable to be there as I was [...]

2024-07-08T09:48:09+10:00July 8th, 2024|0 Comments

Scale Your Business on Xero Without Needing a Dozen Other Apps and Add-ons

I’m sharing the audio from a session I hosted as part of the Australian CFO Summit 2024, produced by Weel. The session featured Michael Wood, the Founder and CEO of Translucent is called: “Scale your business on Xero without needing a dozen other Apps and Add-ons”  During the session, Michael discusses: - The exponential growth [...]

2024-06-30T20:46:46+10:00June 30th, 2024|0 Comments

A Global Journey in Accounting Technology Marketing | Damien Greathead

Today, I’m speaking with Damien Greathead, Head of Marketing - Accountant & Advisor Group, Intuit Australia Our guest is a dynamic sales and marketing leader who excels in helping venture-funded software companies build robust sales and marketing functions. With a specialised focus on the accounting and fintech verticals, he has a proven track record [...]

2024-08-19T02:38:13+10:00June 30th, 2024|0 Comments

The Latest Updates and Tips on Accounting Apps

Welcome to the mid-year AccounTech insights. Here are the top reads from the Accounting Apps newsletter for June ‘24: 1. The Latest Updates and Tips on Accounting Apps | (Accountants Daily) Tune into the latest on AccounTech on this podcast, where Heather Smith and Tyler Caskey discuss everything happening in the accounting app space since [...]

2024-06-29T03:49:39+10:00June 28th, 2024|0 Comments

Unravelling the Future of AccounTech Sydney Xerocon 2023

Today, I have something exciting to share with you. You know how you get excited when a lost Beatle or Nirvana track is found? Well, the extraordinary Alexi Boyd uncovered the audio of a panel discussion from Sydney Xerocon PreXerocon 2023. I honestly thought I’d never hear it again, and then in mid-March, she [...]

2024-08-19T02:41:01+10:00June 6th, 2024|0 Comments
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