Memos by John Zdanowski

GAAP
“Generally Accepted Accounting Principles” or GAAP is a combination of authoritative standards (set by policy boards) and the commonly accepted ways of recording and reporting accounting information....
Inbound Freight
Inbound Freight in a consumer branded goods business is the cost of shipping, duties and tariffs associated with getting the parts and ingredients to the manufacturer and the goods from the...
Story of The Handbook
We’ve never studied accounting*. We don’t have a CPA. We have helped dozens of companies raise hundreds of millions of dollars. We’ve sold millions and of dollars of equity granted to us by the...
Trust & Will
Trust & Will is an online estate planning platform intended to provide an affordable, accessible, and secure way to set up an estate plan online. The platform modernizes estate planning with a...
Robin Healthcare
Robin Healthcare is a venture backed startup With Robin in the room, doctors can spend more time checking in with patients, and less time checking boxes. Doctors who use Robin reduce their risk of...
Dollar Donation Club
Dollar Donation Club is a subscription giving service: members give a dollar a month, pooled and directed to vetted, high-impact social and environmental projects. Founded in 2020 by Seth Blaustein,...
AlwaysHired
AlwaysHired trains and places sales development representatives (SDRs) for high-growth technology companies. It began as an intensive sales bootcamp — an instructor-led program covering prospecting,...
Assembled Brands
Assembled Brands is a working-capital provider for rapidly growing consumer brands. It offers flexible, asset-backed credit lines to branded e-commerce companies selling on Shopify and Amazon, as...
Bryan Doreian
Bryan Doreian is an entrepreneur, futurist, and multi-disciplinary architect with roughly a decade of startup, C-level, and advisory experience spanning online education, blockchain and...
David Metzler
David Metzler is a San Diego-based serial entrepreneur and investor who led CBD Capital Group, a company that acquired and scaled mid-stage cannabinoid nutraceutical businesses, as its Chief...
Affinity Internet
Affinity Internet helped small businesses establish an internet presence by selling packaged services that included website design, hosting, and marketing. Conceived in 1998 as a web hosting roll-up,...
Amino
Amino is a healthcare navigation platform that helps companies and their employees move through the US healthcare system and find high-value care. The platform lets members search for providers,...
RentJuice
RentJuice was a subscription software service—sold by phone and live online webinars—that let real estate professionals like brokers and agents market and manage rental listings, communicate with...
Crowdbotics
Crowdbotics is a software development company, founded by Anand Kulkarni in 2016 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, that uses AI and reusable code to compress the application development...
Linden Lab
Linden Lab is a technology company best known as the creator of Second Life, the largest-ever 3D virtual world built entirely from the creations of its users. Founded in 1999 by Philip Rosedale and...
Weekly Accounting
Weekly Accounting is the practice of closing the books and reading a business's numbers every week instead of once a month — basic accounting done well fifty-two times a year instead of twelve. It...
John Zdanowski
John Zdanowski is an electrical engineer turned startup CFO and Philosofathergizer. John is attracted to companies with Big Visions and positive Unit Economics. To find the combination, he gives the...