Last year about this time, he was looking at the dwindling finances of his latest company and came to a conclusion: they needed to fire somebody to save money -- and it should be him. It was mid-October of last year, just as the economy was blowing up, and he had a wife and six kids under 13 at home. Crazy? Maybe but he had an idea for a new business, one in which he would be a CFO for hire to small companies that need his business expertise, but can't afford a full-time CFO.