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When is the right time to hire a CFO at a small company?

Posted Sat, 05/23/2009 - 7:07pm by (CEO/CFO)
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I get asked this question all the time. So much so that I wrote a blog article about it here: http://www.proformative.com/blog/john-kogan/when-right-time-hire-cfo. I am curious what others think about this subject which is near and dear to the CEOs and VCs of the Valley.
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