Founder finance, without the finance degree.

Personal Finance Guide for Founders

Free

The 9-step guide (plus a salary calculator) that tells founders exactly what to pay themselves: your number by stage, the pay structure that stops the tax leak, and personal runway building from every paycheck. Drawn from my 70+ CFO engagements and 13 years with founders. Free.

Runway Calculator

Free

You know your bank balance today. You don't know the month it runs out, not without a blank sheet and a guess at next quarter's spend. This calculator does the runway math properly: enter your cash in and cash out on bank timing, and the dashboard turns it into burn, runway in months, and your cash-out month, 36 months ahead, updated every time you touch a number.

Investor Data Room Checklist (Founder Edition)

Free

Term sheets get won in the pitch and lost in diligence, when an investor opens your files and the room does the talking. You rehearse the story for weeks, then the folders get thrown together the night before. This checklist is the data room, folder by folder, every document tagged by stage from pre-seed to Series A. The Excel tracker sits alongside it with status, location, and owner columns, so you build while you read.

The Startup Operating Cadence (by Stage)

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The stage-by-stage operating cadence (plus a tax calendar) that shows founders exactly which meetings to run from first hire to 150 people: every ritual gridded, an owner on every line, and the money meetings marked in blue so you build them first. Drawn from my 70+ CFO engagements with founders.

How Much Equity to Give Employees and Advisors

Free

This guide gives you the 5-step system: qualify the grant, set your budget, price employees and advisors off data from 22,000+ grants, then paper it right. The calculator turns your numbers into the band, the share count, and what it costs you.

How Much Should You Raise?

Free

This guide gives you the 5 steps to derive your round size, instead of picking a number and hoping: the bar your next round requires, what clearing it costs, and the buffer that lets you raise from strength. The calculator turns your inputs into your number, plus the dilution check before you sign anything. Every investor asks: how much are you raising, and why? Now you answer with math.