R&D Credits for AI/ML Companies
If your company is leaning into the exploding opportunities created by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), you’re probably excited about what it could do for your business. Lots of people and companies are champing at the bit for AI/ML products and...
How to Move from QuickBooks Desktop to QuickBooks Online
More and more finance teams are making the jump from QuickBooks Desktop to QuickBooks Online. And it’s not just because the online version maintains the user experience that you’re used to while allowing access from anywhere at any time. It’s because QuickBooks is in...
Refresh Your Finances: Spring Clean Your Bookkeeping to Prep for Your Next Fundraiser
‘Tis the season. As the days get longer and the weather gets warmer, it’s time to undertake the annual chore of spring cleaning. This doesn’t just apply to your abode. Employing a spring-cleaning mentality at your startup — especially when it comes to your books — can...
Exploring Different Types of Equity Grants
When you’re growing a business in its early phases, you’re usually anything but liquid. Not so very long ago, that presented a huge problem for founders. Did they burn through runway to offer competitive pay so they could lure the best employees? Or did they play it...
Our 3 Top Accounting Trends for 2024
2024 is already well underway, but we’re definitely still early enough into the year that it could go any direction. To help our team and clients prepare for what this year will bring, we’ve spent some time thinking about changes coming down the pipe. As we zoomed...
A Founder’s Guide to Efficient Financial Management in 2024
No matter what kind of solution, service, or product a company delivers, it has one thing in common with every other business in existence today. What’s that underlying thread? They all need to be on top of their financial management. Sure, when you’re small and...
Using Your R&D Tax Credit Against Payroll Taxes
As you wrapped up the 2023 books for your startup, you probably did some high-level financial review and analysis. Looking over key documents like your profit and loss statement, you get a better idea of what’s driving revenue — and where you’re spending. For most...
Tax Season 2024- Get Your Books Ready in 6 Steps
The start of a new year always feels fresh. You’re looking ahead and probably getting excited about everything your startup will accomplish in 2024. Don’t forget to look behind you, though. Even as you vision-cast for the year ahead, you need to wrap up the year...
Beneficial Ownership Information: New Filing Requirement for Most Businesses
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) wants to know who’s pulling the strings at companies operating in the U.S. As a result, they’ve instituted a new filing requirement. Starting January 2024 (read: this already applies), the vast majority of companies...
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Does Your Startup Need a Technical Founder?
When you’re building a startup, you know that the people you gather around you matter more than almost anything else. If you’re launching a tech company and you don’t have a programming background yourself, that becomes particularly important. That’s why a lot of...
How to Create an Executive Summary That Will Wow Investors
When your startup is in its seed stage, you face a catch-22. On the one hand, you need investors to power your growth. But, on the other hand, you need to grow to have something tangible to show investors why it’s worth betting on you. Fortunately, you can lean on an...
The Normalization of Remote Work Will Change How Companies Allocate Their Resources and Funding
By Kaci Goff By late 2020, experts had already started speculating about what the pandemic would do to the workplace. As a result, many workplaces moved to a “virtual first” mentality, and Zoom became a verb in a whole new way. That was especially true in the tech...
4 Tips to Help Tech Companies Handle Headhunting
In an ideal world, the team you build at your tech startup should be lean and mean. Finding top talent means you get people on staff who can accomplish more with less guidance in less time. And that enables you to outdo your competition and grow faster. At the end of...
5 Things to Look for in a CPA for Your Startup
As a tech startup founder, you’re keenly aware that your finances can make or break everything. That can make finding a CPA feel particularly stressful. Honestly, it’s a good area in which to exercise some care. Putting in the time and effort to find a CPA who’s a...
Budgeting and Forecasting Tips for Your Tech Company
Running a tech company requires you to keep a lot of plates spinning. You might not feel like you have time for financial planning and analysis (FP&A) — but you need to make time. Without proper budgeting and forecasting in place, you’re flying blind. You need a...
How To Build a Relationship That Lasts with Clients and Customers
As a startup, you have a big focus on making sales. Sure, that’s true for every business. But when you’re in the make-it-or-break-it state of a seed-stage tech company, every single dollar you bring in feels particularly meaningful. It’s surprising, then, that so...
C Corps vs. S Corps
When you’re getting a tech company off the ground, you’re faced with a lot of big decisions. From identifying the right funding sources to building your company’s branding, you’re making choices that will affect you from here on out. That’s particularly true when it...
The Right Finance Stack for Seed-Stage Tech Companies
When you’re building a tech company, putting the right pieces in place early makes a huge difference. That means hiring the right team, establishing the right processes, and building the right tech stack. That last bit rings particularly true when it comes to your...
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DELAWARE ANNUAL FILING-2022
The Delaware Annual Filing is due on March 1st, just 3 weeks away. So make sure to be on the lookout for an email from your registered agent in Delaware. You can sometimes use their portal to file an entire annual report. You will need your file number, which you can...
1099+ Other Year-end Reporting Tips for your Tech Startup – 2022
Founders, for 2021, the threshold to issue a 1099-NEC remains $600 for payments made in the calendar year 2021. You must issue a 1099-NEC to the following: Services performed by someone who is not your employee (including parts/materials) - (box 1) Payments to an...
Meals and Entertainment Deduction
By: Kacie Goff When you’re launching a startup, the tax-deductibility of certain meals and entertainment can be particularly exciting. You need to eat, after all, so it seems like a pretty sweet deal that you might reap some tax benefits there. The trick, though, is...
Remote Workers — and the Tax Implications
By: Kacie Goff In early 2020, remote work was trending upward, but it wasn’t looking to be the status quo anytime soon. Then, everything changed. Now, experts predict that by 2025, an estimated 70% of employees will work remotely at least a handful of days a month. ...
Convertible Notes vs SAFE’s – Accounting/Tax Considerations
Disclaimer: The terms below are discussed in the context of financing that occurs in the United States for Early-Stage Technology companies. We would strongly advise anyone to seek out a professional to help with their individual company circumstances. Earlier this...
Clarification on IRS updated Tax Deadline
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the IRS had delayed the yearly April 15th tax deadline to May 17th. This delayed deadline does not affect Corporate tax filings. Below we've collected answers to common questions about the new deadline. Who does the delay apply...
Federal R&D Tax Credit for Tech Founders
https://youtu.be/HiaOI5U-Kwo Founders, there is a powerful tax credit that can help put cash back into your startup, offsetting up to $250,000 of Payroll taxes per year for qualified small businesses. For businesses that don’t meet the qualified small business...
2021 DELAWARE ANNUAL FILING
The Delaware Annual Filing is due on March 1st, which is just a month from now. So make sure to be on the lookout for an email from your registered agent in Delaware. You can sometimes use their portal to file an entire annual report. You will need your file number,...
Akshay’s Tips for Getting Your Tech Company’s Books Ready for Tax Time
Use an Accounting System: QuickBooks Online, Xero, among other tools are great systems to keep your tech companies’ finances organized and in one place. We love using QuickBooks because bank and credit card transitions directly sync daily. Care must be taken to...
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