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This week\'s episode featuring Scott Orn from Kruze Consulting is brought to you by Oracle Netsuite (Sign up for a personalized product tour at www.netsuite.com/scale). 

Scott runs Operations at Kruze Consulting, a fast growing Startup CFO Consulting firm that works with over 250 startup clients. Kruze is based in San Francisco with clients across the United States. In addition to his Operations responsibilities, Scott runs the Venture Debt Consulting practice at Kruze.
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\\nBefore Kruze Consulting, Scott was a Partner at Lighthouse Capital, a private debt fund that lends to startups. In addition, Scott ran Community Products at Callisto Media. Scott still manages his portfolio on behalf of Lighthouse. Some of his high profile deals include Angie\'s List, Upwork, Impossible Foods, Serena & Lily, Freshbooks, and ZestCash.

In his spare time, Scott co-founded Ben\'s Friends, an Internet patient support community for people with rare diseases. Ben\'s Friends is a 501C3 non profit and has become one of the largest rare disease support communities on the Internet with 120,000 uniques last month (a 20% increase month over month). Both LinkedIn and Google have made sizable grants in the last two months to help Ben\'s Friends continue to grow.
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\\nPrior to joining Lighthouse, Scott spent three years in Technology Mergers & Acquisitions at Hambrecht & Quist which was later acquired by JPMorgan Chase.
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\\nScott has an MBA from Kellogg, and an undergraduate business degree from CAL Berkeley. He also has a CFA and has passed the Series 7.

Connect with Scott: 

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• https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottorn/
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Connect with Poya Osgouei:

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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/                            
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• Twitter: https://twitter.com/IamPoya                  
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Connect with Robby Allen:

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• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbyallen/                            
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• Twitter: https://twitter.com/_RobbyAllen
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