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From Incorporation to Operations: The 90-Day Pilot Playbook

How to Win Early Stage Health Tech Rounds

How to calculate your agency's profits

Raising in 2025: What Venture Trends in 2024 Mean for Life Science Founders

The Small Business Owner's Guide to Practical AI

2025 Predictions from Pilot and Carta

From Guesswork to Goldmine: End-of-Year Accounting & Cash Flow Checklist with Hopscotch

Effective Cash Management Strategies w/ Bridge Bank & Pilot

Back to School with Pilot: Annual Planning Basics

Is Venture the Right Path for You?

Actionable GTM Strategies from Index Ventures

The CEO Journey from Pre-Seed to Series F

Founders and Funders: Building with AI

Opening Keynote: Diane Greene

Demystifying Product-Market Fit with Sequoia’s Jess Lee

Metrics VCs Care About Today

How To Ace Your YC Interview

Financial Modeling 101: Your Roadmap for Profitable Growth

Metrics VCs Care About Today

Unpacking Debt Financing Strategies with Pilot, Bridge Bank, and ClearCo

2024 Trends: Predictions from Pilot and Carta

Nailing Your YC Interview

Launching and Scaling a Consumer Brand with Steve O'Dell

Uncover the 3 Vital Steps to Take Before You Fundraise

Founders and Funders: AI Operating and Investing

AMA: Managing Startup Bank Balances of $1M+

Your Startup Tax Questions, Answered

4 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Annual Budget

Calling All YC Applicants!

Fundraising During a Downturn

Tips For Becoming a Successful Founder

How To Win Candidates in a Competitive Market

Compensating Your Team in a Principled Way

Effective Leadership Skills

What To Do When It’s Not Working

Take Control of Your Cash!

How To Navigate Turbulent Markets

Personal Finance for Founders

Save Time and Money by Maximizing Your Back Office Tech Stack

Pre-Accelerator Prep: Advice From YC, TechStars and ODX Alumni

Demystifying the Fundraising Process

Introducing Pilot Bookkeeping

How to get your first investor to say “yes”

How to Hire For Your Startup

Considering applying to YC? Don't miss our YC S22 admissions chat!

AMA on Startup Taxes

VC Fireside: From Growth to IPO with IVP

How to Choose Your Startup Tax Provider

Closing out 2021 strong: What to include in your EOY financial checklist | Watch the Webinar

Raising Your First Round

How Startups Scale: Real Life Stories from Stripe, Sequoia, and Pilot

So You Want to Build a Unicorn?

Claiming the R&D and Employee Retention Tax Credits

Pilot for eCommerce Businesses Demo

Startup Stories: How immi Is Disrupting the $42B Ramen Industry

Investor Fireside: Lindsay Lee of Authentic Ventures

Startup Stories: Lessons Learned From Winding Down Cherry

From Literally on Fire to $12M Series A: How Welcome Staged a Turnaround

Investor Fireside: Lan Xuezhao of Basis Set

Your Startup Budget: How to Get it Right

Set Your Finances Up for Success

R&D tax credit 101: Save up to $250,000

Pilot handled the finances so Jellypod could launch products

Freightr rose above a freight downturn with Pilot CFO guidance

When Continua’s COO left, their Pilot CFO took over

Fenwick ends its cash-crunch saga with a Pilot CFO

Kompliant’s founders go from idea to revenue with help from a Pilot CFO

Ladris gets better exec decision support with Pilot bookkeeping

Growth Plays gains complete trust in their financials so they can hire and grow

Element5’s CEO saves 15 hours per week thanks to their Pilot CFO

How Pilot handled the books so Optimal AI could raise $2M

Facktor Healthcare earns 20% more revenue with the same headcount

Ethos builds faster in Web3 because Pilot handles the books

A Vaccine Developer Finds a Partner in Growth

How Pilot Helped Commons Clinic Develop a Sustainable Business Model

How Outsourced CFOs Help a Pet Food Company Grow and Prosper

How a Crypto Management Platform Gets Their Books and Taxes Done Right

Saving Us Time: How Pilot Helped Bridge Focus on The Important Things

E-commerce Businesses: How Pilot Helped Sundaily Prepare for Growth

How One Viral Blog Uses Pilot to Grow Its Digital Media Conglomerate

How Pilot Helps Vertoe Confidently Operate in 16 International Markets

How Pilot Made Passage AI’s Acquisition More Seamless

How One Startup Fundraises and Wins Competitive Grants, Thanks to Pilot

After 4 Bookkeepers, One Consulting Agency Had Enough—Here’s Why They Went with Pilot

How One Founder Automates his Books with Pilot - Enabling Impressive Growth with a Lean Team

Founders & Funders: In Conversation with Sarah Ahmad & Jessica McKellar

Founders and Funders: AI with Riley Rodgers

Founders and Funders: AI with Mike Vernal

Entrepreneur Exclusive: Nashville

Founders and Funders: AI with Karan Goel

Founders and Funders: AI with CC Gong

Founders and Funders: AI with Ankur Goyal

Founders and Funders: AI with Harrison Chase

Founders and Funders: AI with Jeff Huber

Founders and Funders: AI with Nat Friedman

Founders and Funders: AI with Elad Gil

Founders and Funders: AI with Sarah Guo

YC Reunion Event - Personal Finance for Founders

Co-Working at Pilot HQ for YC S23 Batch

Founder Dinner with Pilot and Mercury

VC Fireside Chat with Chapter One

Co-Working and Pitch Prep Hosted at Pilot HQ

Pilot Hosted Networking Event at SXSW

VC AMA with Heartland Ventures

Founder Happy Hour

Brex Art Basel 2022

VC AMA SF Tech Week

Founders and Funders Dinner

Pilot's Operational Checklist: Essential Finance & HR System

H1 Mid-Year 2025 VC Market Insights

Cash Management for Startups

A Guide to Achieving Cash Flow Positivity

Guide to E-commerce Debt Financing

Turn Your Shopify Data into Actionable Insights with Pilot’s KPI Dashboard Workbook

The Comprehensive Guide to eCommerce KPIs

Pilot's Guide to Navigating an Economic Downturn

Annual Strategic Planning Guide for Startups

So You've Founded an E-Commerce Startup

The Comprehensive Guide to eCommerce KPIs

The Founder Salary Report 2022

The Comprehensive Guide to Startup Finances

So You’ve Founded a Tech Startup: A Guide to Setting Up for Success

Annual Budgeting & Forecasting Checklist

The R&D Tax Credit: A Comprehensive Guide

Technology for Retail: The Systems You Need for Growth

Are companies using multiple foundational models?

How much does it cost to raise a round?

What are average expenses per employee?

How much revenue is generated per employee?

What roles are most affected by layoffs?

Startup staffing levels

When will startups run out of cash?

Appendix: You just raised money

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Chapter 2: Your cofounders

Chapter 1: Setting up your company

Introduction