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Jim Gellas
@jgellas.bsky.social
CFO and Finance leader for early-stage startups
co-founder at financeinabox.co
BOD member | Entrepreneur | Founder | Tech
Go Lehigh! Fight on USC!
Reposted by Jim Gellas
By making workflows efficient and eliminating repetitive, time-consuming tasks, AI allows firms to be future-ready.
How to Implement AI in Your Tax and Accounting Firm
By making workflows efficient and eliminating repetitive, time-consuming tasks, AI allows firms to be future-ready.
www.cpapracticeadvisor.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
What's worse than having to hear people's speakerphone calls through thin office walls?

Glad you asked.

It's having to listen to the hold music while they wait for someone to speak with them. 🤦😢
a man in a blue suit is standing in front of a phone booth .
ALT: a man in a blue suit is standing in front of a phone booth .
media.tenor.com
May 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Great panel hosted by Elizabeth Yin (Hustle Fund) on pivoting a startup. Thank you! Great insights from Gagan Biyani (Maven) and Sara Mauskopf(Winnie)
May 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Great advice from FishWife (premium canned fish) founder Becca Millstein:
• focus on brand early
• as a founder engage with influencers and journalists directly for the first year
• create touch points to engage with customers, social, email, IRL, surveys
• collaborate w/others!
May 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Sara Guo (Conviction)
Sonya Huang (Sequoia)
Immad Akhun (Mercury)
..pure Legend!
May 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Yes @alexismadrigal.bsky.social!!
(You know him from @kqedforum.bsky.social )So great to see you in-person! Congrats on your new book, The Pacific Circuit.Thank you for talking about human experiences. Inspiring!
“all that you touch you change and all that you change changes you” -Octavia Butler.
May 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Excited for today’s Mercury Bank conference for #founders of #startups! Doing double duty today as a founder and fCFO. Let’s go!
May 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I heard someone's ringtone play the talent show song from Revenge of the Nerds and it made my day www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mRG...
Revenge of the Nerds Talent Show
YouTube video by richard kell
www.youtube.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This is a real thing. It’s so easy to say to yourself that you’ve never heard of this happening to anyone you know. Kids don’t care about that. They’ll still pull all the drawers out of their dresser…
Always anchor your TVs and furniture to the wall.
February 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
If you're the CFO of an American beverage company, I can't imagine that you had "losing all Canadian sales" as part of your scenario planning for 2025. Ugh!
February 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Bench Accounting’s shut down leaves business owners scrambling for reliable support. If you’re seeking a trusted partner to handle your finances, FinanceInABox.co is here to help.

✅ Expert-backed accounting
✅ High-value pricing

Don’t let this disruption slow you down!

#BenchAccountingShutDown
Finance box – Your Trusted Partner for Accounting, Financial, and Staffing Excellence.
FinanceInABox.co
December 27, 2024 at 11:26 PM
Founders, you have until Jan 13 to get these reports filed.
Happy New Year.
December 27, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Reposted by Jim Gellas
A federal appeals court on Thursday reinstated a nationwide injunction halting enforcement of beneficial ownership information reporting requirements, reversing an order the same court issued earlier this week. #BOI
Appeals court reinstates injunction that halts BOI enforcement
Three days after a panel of judges granted a Department of Justice motion to lift the injunction, another panel said it was reinstating a lower court’s ruling. An AICPA statement Friday urged CPAs to ...
www.journalofaccountancy.com
December 27, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Hey Founders and SMB owners, you might have heard of a BOI filing requirement by year end. As of today, a federal court in Texas has ruled that companies do NOT need to make that filing by year end. Back to building your business..

natlawreview.com/article/texa...
Federal Court Enjoins Enforcement of the CTA Nationwide; Reporting Companies “Need Not Comply” with January 1 Deadline
On December 3, 2024, a Texas-based federal court issued a sweeping order prohibiting the federal government from enforcing the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) anywhere in the country. Texas Top Cop S...
natlawreview.com
December 4, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Great list of people in the #startup community!
The VC and Startup Universe starter pack hit a cap of 150 people so I created also a second list linked below.
go.bsky.app/5ehEyfo
December 3, 2024 at 4:46 PM