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Field notes on building, funding and running a US company.
Funding · 2026-08-15
Burn rate and runway, the way an investor reads them
Gross burn and net burn are different numbers answering different questions, runway is computed off net burn on reconciled cash rather th…
Structure & setup · 2026-08-15
Delaware or your home state? What incorporation actually changes for your books
Delaware incorporation doesn't change your chart of accounts. It changes your compliance calendar: a second registered agent, a franchise…
Structure & setup · 2026-08-15
Your first accountant hire vs outsourcing: the actual math
A founder budgeting for a first finance hire is usually pricing one salary against one job title. The job title is the problem — no singl…
Funding · 2026-08-15
The five bookkeeping mistakes that surface in every due diligence
A quality-of-earnings review is a stress test for your books. These are the five patterns that show up on the buy-side checklist almost e…
Bookkeeping & close · 2026-08-15
The month-end close: what actually gets checked, in what order
A P&L that opens without errors is not the same thing as a closed month. Closing is a sequence — reconciliations first, then revenue and …
Tax & compliance · 2026-08-15
What your CPA’s R&D-credit study will ask you for
The federal research credit study belongs to your CPA. The records it runs on belong to you — here is what a study actually asks for, and…
Tax & compliance · 2026-08-15
The S corp election: Form 2553, the real deadline, and what to fix before you file
Form 2553 has a firm two-month-and-fifteen-day window, a late-relief path that only works if the books already look like an S corp's book…
Funding · 2026-08-15
SAFEs on your balance sheet: where founders get it wrong
A SAFE reads like a two-page contract, but it lands on the books as one of the more contested calls in early-stage accounting. What it is…
Tax & compliance · 2026-08-15
Economic nexus for ecommerce: when a store has to register
An online store can owe sales tax in a state it has never shipped a truck to. Since Wayfair, the trigger is dollars and transactions, not…
Bookkeeping & close · 2026-08-15
From shoebox to Series A: what cleanup actually involves
A pre-round bookkeeping rebuild is not a fresh coat of paint on last year's ledger. It is finding the last month that actually reconciled…
Funding · 2026-08-15
The state of US startup funding, 2026 — what 34 verified programmes actually say
We verified every record in our US funding directory against its own official page. The result disagrees with most "startup grants" listi…