Murray Newlands

Yes, thank you so much for having me on the show.

Yeah, hey, thank you very much.

That was a great introduction.

So we started Due.com.

It's an online invoicing platform.

When I was 23, I started my first company.

I'm now 41.

One of the biggest things in getting going was I just wanted to do a great job for my customers.

I wanted to find customers, do great work.

And then getting paid was something that I had to focus on later when, as you're starting your own company, collecting money, sending invoices is super hard.

The thing most entrepreneurs start out in is they get a client that's fantastic.

They do some work that's even better.

And then they hope to get paid and they need that money coming into their bank account.

Where most people start is they think, okay, now I have to do an invoice.

So they create a Word document and they send it off to their client.

That's great when you've got one or two clients.

But as you start to grow and as you start to get more clients and you invoice more and more to those clients for more and more projects, it's really easy for those to get in a mess.

You've got different invoices going to different people.

You've got maybe an inconsistent numbering system.

Every month you have to decide which invoices have been paid, which haven't been paid.