Founders Portal
The indinero Founders Portal is a helpful resource for entrepreneurs and startup founders, offering insights and guidance on accounting, taxes, finance, payroll, and other essential business needs.
The indinero guide for founders
Four areas founders come to us about most, roughly in the order they come up. Each one has a full page behind it.
Setup
Incorporating and getting set up
Entity choice, state of incorporation, your EIN, and the founding paperwork that is genuinely painful to fix two years later.
Read moreFunding
Fundraising and cap tables
SAFEs, priced rounds, dilution, and keeping a cap table your next investor will not raise an eyebrow at.
Read moreOperating
Runway, burn and forecasting
The three numbers you should be able to quote from memory in any meeting, and how to keep them current without a weekly rebuild.
Read moreCompliance
Staying compliant as you grow
Payroll registrations, sales tax nexus, annual filings, and the deadlines nobody sends you a reminder about.
Read moreFounder resources
Templates, checklists and reference pages you can put to work the same day.
Templates
The founder financial model
A monthly model you can realistically maintain, rather than one you rebuild in a panic before every board meeting.
Read moreEquity
Understanding your cap table
Who owns what, what an option pool does to that, and how each round changes the picture for everyone already on it.
Read moreHiring
Your first finance hire
When a bookkeeper is enough, when you need a controller, and the point at which a CFO starts paying for themselves.
Read moreDiligence
Getting diligence-ready
What investors and acquirers open first, and how long it takes to fix if it is not already there.
Read moreFounder blog posts
Recent writing from the indinero blog for people building companies rather than reading about them.
Fundraising
What investors actually look at in your financials
Three things they check in the first ten minutes, and one they take their time over.
Read moreRunway
Extending runway without gutting the team
The levers worth pulling, roughly in the order most founders should pull them.
Read moreEquity
SAFEs explained without the jargon
Caps, discounts, and what actually happens to your ownership at conversion.
Read moreCompliance
Deadlines every founder misses at least once
The filings that turn up without warning in your first two years of trading.
Read moreMore for founders
Short pages you can send straight to a co-founder or an investor.
Building something and want the finance side handled?
We work with founders from incorporation through to acquisition. A short call is usually enough to tell whether we are a fit.