Mark MacLeod

Since 1999, Mark MacLeod has been helping fund, grow and exit venture-backed startups. Mark has over 14 years of experience as a CFO for leading companies such as FreshBooks, Shopify, Tungle, and many others. In addition, Mark spent three years as a General Partner for Real Ventures. Mark now runs SurePath Capital Partners the leading investment bank advising the SMB software and commerce markets.

angrymeeting

Canadian Startup News, FeatureMarch 16, 2016<March 16, 2016

Ask @StartupCFO: How to avoid the “Oh shit” board meeting

I was at a gathering of most of Canada’s VC fund managers a few weeks ago in Vancouver. One of the fund managers talked about…

Sheryl Sandberg

Canadian Startup NewsMarch 1, 2016<March 1, 2016

Ask @StartupCFO: Should I hire a COO or CFO?

Venturebeat recently declared in an article that “The CFO is dead, long live the COO.” The premise of this piece, written…

Crunching Numbers

Canadian Startup NewsFebruary 17, 2016<February 17, 2016

@StartupCFO asks: Is your revenue model accurate?

We specialize in three sectors at SurePath: SaaS, E-Commerce and Marketplaces. The commonality across these segments is that…

StartupCFO Employee Stock Options

TechnologyFebruary 10, 2016<February 10, 2016

@StartupCFO asks: should founders get stock options?

Founders often ask me whether they should be asking for stock options in their own company. Some of them feel sheepish for…

Canadian money

TechnologyJanuary 6, 2016<February 10, 2016

Mark MacLeod (@StartupCFO) on achieving financial success in 2016

I’m not one for making bold predictions. So, rather than offering up a list of things that may or may not happen this year,…