{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Count Me In®","title":"Ep. 6: Richard Starkey - The Importance of Accounting in Entrepreneurship","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1146,"description":"Richard Starkey, Managing Partner of CronosNow, shares his background and some of his personal experiences to explain why accounting and finance skills are so important to entrepreneurship and running a business. According to Richard Starkey, he has been \"a serial entrepreneur\" since his teenage years. So, as a business professional highly passionate about marketing, education, and productivity, he qualified as a Chartered Accountant a bit later in life to assist with his business endeavors. With a new appreciation for computer coding and automation, he believes in simple solutions that not only get results with bottom line profits and cash flow but ultimately also result in time and freedom for the business owner. Richard Starkey is someone who has interest in a number of startups, some successful and some what he refers to as \"great life lessons along with some humble pie\", but he explains how they all have taught him the value of thinking more like a “master designer” of the entrepreneurial machine, much of which is thanks to accounting and finance skills.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/rcJwxyy46Yq0jlhpApzZH7lMN9921MWulzRUL5_-3sg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzEwNTcvMTcwMjQ5/ODcwNC1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}