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Investor Ready Financial Model: What Will We Cover In The Series
A pre-revenue financial model is a comprehensive forecast that outlines a startup's expected growth, revenue streams, and operational expenses before ...
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Investor-ready financial modelling for pre-revenue founders
A 14-part video series on building, understanding and pitching your financial model. No finance background needed.
- From the summary dashboard to valuation and how much to raise
- Built alongside a real model you can copy
- Every episode has written notes and a transcript
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4:19Episode 1
Investor-Ready Financial Model: Summary Dashboard, Runway, Burn rate and Forecast
The summary dashboard is the central hub where all your business assumptions come together into a single, clear financial picture. It allows founders ...
7:00Episode 2
Investor-Ready Financial Model: How to Model Customer Growth & Acquisition
A robust financial model is designed to provide clear, immediate answers to three fundamental questions critical to both founders and investors:
6:15Episode 3
Investor-Ready Financial Model: Build Your Revenue Streams & Pricing Model
After defining how you will reach and acquire users, the next step is translating that potential audience into actual revenue. This requires moving fr...
7:48Episode 4
Investor-Ready Financial Model: Cost of Sales & Gross Margin for Startups
Revenue on its own only tells half the story. To understand how profitable your product actually is, you must calculate the Cost of Sales (often refer...
9:14Episode 5
Investor-Ready Financial Model: Analyse Revenue & Margins Like an Investor
Once you have established your revenue streams and tied them to your Cost of Sales, the next step is to stress-test those assumptions exactly like a v...
9:16Episode 6
Investor-Ready Financial Model: Plan & Control Your Operational Expenses
Operational expenses (OpEx) are the day-to-day running costs of your business. These sit below Gross Profit on a P&L statement and are entirely separa...
6:37Episode 7
Investor-Ready Financial Model: Build a Hiring Plan Investors Can Trust
For the vast majority of software and service startups, people represent the single largest cost category. Building an accurate hiring plan is not jus...
8:23Episode 8
Investor-Ready Financial Model: Capital Expenses, Depreciation & Tax Impact
Capital Expenses (CapEx) are major, one-off purchases of physical or digital assets that your business requires to operate long-term. Unlike operation...
5:25Episode 9
Investor-Ready Financial Model: Read Your Full Forecast Like an Investor
When presenting to investors, complexity is not your friend. They don't want a spreadsheet with 40 intertwined tabs; they want absolute clarity. The s...
6:08Episode 10
Investor-Ready Financial Model: Scenario Planning — Upside, Downside & Fundraising
Building a base financial model is only the first step. Every investor knows that startups rarely hit their exact projections. They want to know what ...
8:36Episode 11
Investor-Ready Financial Model: How to Value Your Startup at Pre-Seed & Seed
Valuation is one of the most important and challenging questions for any early-stage founder. When you don't have historical revenue to base a multipl...
4:23Episode 12
Investor-Ready Financial Model: Turn Your Forecast Into a Pitch Deck
You’ve built a comprehensive financial model covering growth, revenue, expenses, and capital assets. However, sending a massive, complex spreadsheet d...
10:02Episode 13
Investor-Ready Financial Model: How Much to Raise & How to Track Investors
A financial model on its own does not raise money. You raise money by knowing exactly how much capital you need, understanding what that money will do...
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