Financial Modeling for Startups

Learn the best practices for building practical financial models and forecasts for your startup business.

Created by: Evan Kimbrell
Founder of Sprintkick | Ex-VC | Ex-startup founder

Created by: Symon He
Author | Investor | MBA

What Will I Learn?

• Build financial models for your startup business
• Forecast cash needs for your startup business
• Model user growth
• Model revenue
• Model expenses
• Model attrition
• Model various different business models, from tech to brick & mortar
• Use best practices for financial modeling

Requirements

• Have access to Microsoft Excel 2011 or Newer
• Working knowledge of Excel/spreadsheet core functionality
• Working knowledge of Excel/spreadsheet formulas and cell references
• Working knowledge of basic algebra

Target audience

• Someone who wants to understand how to create a financial model for a startup business
• Someone who wants to start a new business
• Someone who wants to leverage financial modeling to make better business decisions
• Someone who wants to better analyze business opportunities
• Someone interested in doing a startup and plan on raising VC funding
• Someone interested in starting a brick & mortar business