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Financial tips and best practices for growing businesses

43% founder pay cut: the new reality of startup compensation in 2025

Founder pay is down 43% in 2025 as capital efficiency becomes critical for startups. Explore trends, benchmarks, and expert insights in Pilot’s Founder Salary Report to guide your compensation strategy.

For Founders
Waseem Daher

Automated Bookkeeping: Why You Need These Four Tools (And Not Just One Great Bookkeeping Service)

Bookkeeping
Pilot Team

Bookkeeping Software for Business: How to Choose What’s Right for You

Back Office Operations
Pilot Team

Pilot’s Founding Story: How We Set Out to Build the Best Bookkeeping Service in the World

Pilot Updates
Waseem Daher

Small Business Expenses: The Most Important Deductions and How to Track Them

Taxes
Pilot Team

Financial Management for Small Business Owners

Finances & Fundraising
Pilot Team

The Four Basic Financial Statements

Finances & Fundraising
Pilot Team

How to Set — and Achieve — Financial Management Goals

Finances & Fundraising
Pilot Team

QuickBooks vs. Xero vs. Wave: Which Bookkeeping Software Is Right for You?

Back Office Operations
Pilot Team

How to Set Up a Small Business Bookkeeping System

Back Office Operations
Pilot Team

How Much Do Bookkeepers Charge: A State by State Breakout

Bookkeeping
Pilot Team

Announcing $40M in Series B Funding and Pilot Tax

Pilot Updates
Waseem Daher

Double-entry vs. Single-entry Bookkeeping

Back Office Operations
Pilot Team

14 of the Best Tools for Startups in 2022

Back Office Operations
Pilot Team

How to Choose a Bookkeeping Software

Back Office Operations
Pilot Team

Why Cash-Basis Accounting Could End up Sinking Your Startup

Finances & Fundraising
Pilot Team

Solvency vs Liquidity

Finances & Fundraising
Pilot Team

Mixing Personal and Business Expenses Is More Than a Tax-Time Headache — Here’s Why (And How to Fix It)

Finances & Fundraising
Pilot Team

How to Automate Your Business’s Bank Reconciliation

Back Office Operations
Pilot Team

How to Hire Accountants

Back Office Operations
Pilot Team

Don’t Make These Three Common Cap Table Mistakes

Finances & Fundraising
Pilot Team

What Does a Bookkeeper Do? (Plus How to Find a Good One)

Bookkeeping
Pilot Team

How to Raise a Series A

Finances & Fundraising
Pilot Team

Sujay Jaswa on How to Grow Your Early-Stage Business

Startups 101
Pilot Team

How to Build and Scale Your Engineering Team

Startups 101
Pilot Team

Meraki’s Hans Robertson on Building a Startup Finance Team

Startups 101
Waseem Daher

Wave Capital’s Sara Adler on How to Get Your Startup Acquired

Startups 101
Waseem Daher

Stripe’s Stacie Faggioli on How to Structure Your Financial Organization

Startups 101
Pilot Team

Introducing Pilot

Pilot Updates
Waseem Daher
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