How to Use and Preserve Your Cash

Thursday, June 4, 2009 7:30 to 9am Centergy One Building 75 5th Street, NW Hodges Room (335) Atlanta, GA  Map Click here to register!

Join us at this month’s TAG/ATDC Entrepreneurs event as a panel of entrepreneur operators and experts share their tips on how to manage, use and preserve your precious cash sources.

Experts to include:

• Doug Hadaway, CFO, MFG.com; Former CEO, Marketworks
• Lindsey Sykes, Bennett Thrasher Partner, Former CFO, TRX
• Dave Chambless, Principal, Abraxas Business Services

Topics will include:

• How do you best make decisions on how and when to spend cash particularly when you’re a cash strapped organization?
• How do you get better runway from the capital that you raise for your venture?
• What policies and procedures are essential in a growing
  organization that don’t hinder the entrepreneurial spirit of your
  venture?
• What are the best and most creative ways to compensate management and employees that will motivate while preserving cash?
• What financial modeling and cash-flow management tools and best
  practices do entrepreneurial ventures deploy to best position for
  successful capital raising (bank and/or institutional capital) or other
  important transactions?
• What do you recommend for management of finance within a
  startup/early stage company? What are the pros and cons of an
  outsourced CFO model? If you outsource, what should the company retain
  internally?
• When does it make sense to bring in a CFO or senior finance person to a company?
• What are the key mistakes growing companies make in the finance
  area that hinder their ability to sell their company, raise capital or
  execute successful on major events?