Blogs - BiCXO

How Much runway should a start-up actually have in 2026?

For years, the standard advice was simple: raise enough start-up runway to cover 18 to 24 months, then go back

Introduction For many manufacturers, the accounts payable cycle is a quiet drain on two things that would matter most would

Calculating burn rate is easy, if never tried before. If calculated only once a quarter, the number would be stale

Most finance dashboards are built to report what happened last month. That’s too slow for burn rate management because by

Introduction Every scaling company would eventually face the question: should we raise debt or equity? It would sound strategic and

Most founders and finance leaders would have a rough sense of how long the money will last, the problem is

Introduction Most businesses would be sitting on cash they don’t fully use. Visible, accounted for balances sitting in current accounts,

Introduction If a CFO is asked how much cash would the business have in 30 days, their honest answer would

Introduction Most start-ups don’t have a finance department, they have one person doing the job of five. Somewhere between fundraising,

Introduction For a decade, automation has been finance buzzword yet according to the 2025 Accounts Payable Automation Trends Reports, 66%