Naked Business

money is an intimate matter

Business Budgeting

Guide to Business Budgeting and Resource Allocation

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Budgeting is fairly simple, yet there's a lot of confusion about it. Budgets are often confused with forecasts. They're related but different beasts. In this article, we dive deep.

Optimal Software Stack for Payroll and Benefits

  • Upward Insights | Luis Lomanov

Here is the list of software we use to manage payroll and benefits for tech and SaaS businesses - all of them are awesome, low cost platforms that work together in one software stack
bookkeeping and finances for startups and small businesses

Financial Infrastructures: What Are They and Is Yours Any Good?

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Whether you build it intentioanally or not, you will end up with a financial infrastructure. The question is whether it's going to be any good...

Scaling A Startup: Builders & Doers

  • Upward Insights | Luis Lomanov

Many CEO's have hired poorly because they didn't recognize the difference between someone who's built something from scratch vs someone who's come in and executed and grew an existing function well. In the context of business operations, I prefer to think in simple terms: There are people that do and people that build.

The Hidden Profits of Performance Management

  • Upward Insights | Luis Lomanov

Payroll is often the first or second largest expense line item. So how does a CEO make sure that they’re getting the best ROI on the largest expense line item in the business?
Fiscal Responsibility

Fiscal Responsiblity Is Old Fashioned But Necessary

  • Upward Insights | Luis Lomanov

Fiscal Responsibility was nearly forgotten with the abundance of VC funding, but it's needed now more than ever! Here's how to recognize its presence or absence in your business and how to deploy it