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Oh god, that's me! I was offered a position as CTO two years ago, couldn't turn it down. Coming from a very strong technical background, the financial side of things has been challenging. I have never had to plan budgets before. I'm learning. CFO has been hands-on with me, helping as much as he can. First year I overestimated by 10%, second year by 20%. We are doing well, so that was a non-issue and my overshooting went into bonuses + new software licenses for the devs.

How in the world do you get more financial experience, short of bashing your head against it like I'm doing? Are there books you can buy that don't suck? We're going to double our development staff in Q1 (10->20) which is sort of terrifying....wish I had more knowledge!