Richard CanfieldPodcast Host and IBC Advisor, Ascendant Financial · Authorized Infinite Banking Practitioner | Author of 4 Books

Outgrowing Your Financial Team

10 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Richard Canfield discusses the early-stage entrepreneurial journey where founders often rely on low-cost, informal financial help (friends, family, neighbors) for bookkeeping and basic accounting. He highlights the loyalty founders develop toward these helpers but raises the concern that as a business grows it may outgrow the capabilities of those initial supporters, potentially hindering scaling or the ability to 'level up'.

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A lot of times people, when they get started in business and they don't really know what they're doing and it's a foreign to something unknown and they're bootstrapping it, as it were, or what have you, they're not sure if it's going to be successful. They're taking on a lot of risk. You're trying to do things with low cost alternatives, etc. Working long hours. Like a lot of these kind of common things that we hear about the entrepreneurial journey, often they end up getting a recommendation. It's a friend or a buddy or an uncle or their neighbor who's going to help them initially with some bookkeeping work or some basic accounting work or what have you. And then they develop a loyalty to that individual, which is great, but there is also a recognition that at some point your business may outgrow the capabilities of that individual. It's not to say that they weren't there to help and support you, but are they going to help you level up and get to the next stage or are they going to hinder that process?