Say you have a CFO you know that you’d like to get hired somewhere - where do you even start with something like that?
Well, you start by building up a nice little framework to get things kicked off.
Say your friend is a CFO with a consumer tech background, we can use that to create a plan to help them.
Let’s list out our steps and walk through >
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What problem do they solve? They’re not just a CFO, maybe they’re an operator that scaled their businesses through credit, risk, advisory, and going public. In this step once we figure out their thesis, then we can define our “buyer” - Other questions here include things like company size, PE or VC, growth vs turnaround, geography, etc.
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With that foundation built, we can now start to build our market plan - Buckets like VC / PE / Public consumer tech and sectors (did they bring an Apple watch competitor to market? A dating site? Keep these in mind.
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Start scoring your companies on a scale from 1-5 Fit / Succession Probability / Access