The essence of the start-up is the founder's vision, energy, enthusiasm, ideas and innovation. What's sometimes missing is a necessary pragmatism, experience, and expertise to shortcut inefficiencies, avoid mistakes and pitfalls, and clarify direction. In this episode of Create The Next, Pat Cory Arcadipane delivers advice to the start-up company, including why the right CFO must have a role early on to help drive everything from strategy to pitching to competitive analysis and exist strategy.

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