# Good to Grow

## What is a fractional CFO and do I need one?

A fractional CFO (chief financial officer) is a senior financial professional who manages the critical strategic financial analysis startups need to succeed.

by Mark Gervase • August 6, 2024

## 2025 VC Market Update: The 5 Trends Defining Startup Fundraising

by Pilot Team • August 11, 2025

## How to choose the right accounting software for your business

by Mark Gervase • April 29, 2025

## Burn Rate Calculator: Calculate Your Burn Rate and Startup Runway

by Pilot Team • August 29, 2024

## Measure your profit with our editable agency calculator

by Pilot Team

## Founder Salary Report 2025

by Pilot Team

## Pick your journey to growth

- **The new company path**  
  Checklists to get you set up quickly. Read everything multi-time founders and business owners wish they'd known from the start—regarding finance, raising, hiring, and more.

- **The growth path**  
  Benchmarks, templates, and talks to seize your opportunity. Lots of companies hack their way to $1M or $5M. To get to the next stage, you'll need these CFO insights.

- **The finance basics path**  
  "Just tell me how not to f* it up." We hear you—you don't want to be a CFO. You want to manage one. Here's all the wisdom, quickly.

- **The startup scale path**  
  Pitch decks, calculators models, and more. Our CFOs have helped teeny tiny startups like OpenAI raise, strategize, and scale.

- **The damage control path**  
  Crisis responses and turnaround stories. Every business has crises. See exit strategies and hear from other founders how they got through it.

## Growth stories

You didn't get into this to do accounting. Neither did they.

### For Founders

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

### Creative Agencies

Brand Up comedy expands thanks to solid finances.

### SMB

Go-Parts gets data-driven with a finance portal plus “a team of 10.”

### Life Sciences

Healium crunches numbers faster with Pilot.

## Learn with Pilot

**Raising in 2025: What Venture Trends in 2024 Mean for Life Science Founders**  
Discover how venture trends in 2024 are shaping life sciences fundraising.  
**From Incorporation to Operations: The 90-Day Pilot Playbook**  
**How to Win Early Stage Health Tech Rounds**  
Join Pilot CFO and Propellant VC for a fireside chat on how health tech founders can win early-stage funding rounds.

**How to calculate your agency's profits**  
Pilot CFO's guide to measuring your agency's profitability.

## Finance explained

**Founder Salary Report 2025**  
We asked 1,844 startup founders what they pay themselves. Answers ranged from nothing on up to some pretty high numbers.

### Calculators

- [Self-Employment Tax Calculator](https://pilot.com/calculators/self-employment-tax-calculator)
- [Franchise Tax Calculator](https://pilot.com/calculators/franchise-tax-calculator)
- [Payroll Tax Calculator](https://pilot.com/calculators/payroll-tax-calculator)
- [1099 Tax Calculator](https://pilot.com/calculators/1099-contractor-tax-calculator)
- [Tax Bracket Calculator](https://pilot.com/calculators/tax-bracket-calculator)
- [Personal Estimated Tax Payments Calculator](https://pilot.com/calculators/personal-estimated-tax-payments-calculator)

## Founder finance wisdom in 2 minutes, 2x/month

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