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How do you get finance to allocate budget to programs that we haven’t proven out yet, but are experimental?

We recently brought on a CFO and they are asking us to add timelines for ROI to many of the programs that have not yet begun (like influence marketing).
Tyler Will
Intercom VP, Revenue Operations | Formerly LinkedIn9mo
There are a few "how do I get money out of finance" questions in this AMA so I'll repeat the relevant parts each time, and try to add specific context where it seems addi...
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Mollie Bodensteiner
Engine SVP of Operations | Formerly Engine, Sound, Deel, Marketo, Syncari1mo
Finance isn't afraid of risk, they're afraid of risk they can't see or size. Give them a structured way to say yes without feeling like they're handing over a blank check...
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Ken Liu
Redis Director - Global Sales Strategy & Operations | Formerly Databricks, Google8mo
Help increase the chances of greenlighting your experimental programs by:Aligning and proposing the programs in line with Finance's planning cadence (e.g. qtrly) as early...
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Ignacio Castroverde
Cisco Senior Director, Global SMB & Mid-Market Sales Acceleration and Program Office1y
How I go about getting budget for these experimental programs really comes down to the CFOs style. If they are risk averse and very data-oriented, I will: - View From Oth...
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Bridget Hudacs
Knowledge Vortex Salesforce Functional Analyst1y
If you are doing an experiment, then you should have a hypothesis that you are testing.To justify budget for this experiment, you need to share your hypothesis and test m...
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