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Do you guys have an ability to provide advice about what startups at early stages need to do for book keeping, filings, etc? You seem to be more affordable than
by dzink 9y ago
Do you guys have an ability to provide advice about what startups at early stages need to do for book keeping, filings, etc? You seem to be more affordable than competitors for early stages, so you would also deal with less experienced founders who are graduating from TurboTax into something that handles an ever-increasing load, done with dubious thoroughness at start. My biggest challenge is getting proper advice about everything needs to be done and making sure I don't miss something. Provide resources on that, maybe via SEO (YC for bookkeeping and compliance for early stage founders) and you'd have a never ending stream of leads.
- adam_gyroscope 9y agoI'm a pilot customer; my company is an early (seed) stage software startup, and I use to do my bookkeeping by hand... and I had no idea what I was doing. "dubious thoroughness" is a great way to express my bookkeeping. Pilot basically solved that problem. I just do my normal business and their integrations with my banks, expensify, credit cards, etc handle all of the transaction classification, and at the end of the month I get all of the statements I need to run a business. If there's any questions they reach out and help me address them. I went from basically 4 founder-hours a month to zero, and I know my books are good. Totally worth it.
- wdaher 9y agoI definitely like the idea of providing some good, clear writeups about "You have a company--now what?". There's some care needed—we're a bookkeeping firm, so we can't give accounting/tax/legal advice, but there's a lot we can do to help (and we can always connect you with e.g. a tax prep firm we know and trust for the stuff we can't do ourselves.)