Repost: Financial Planning Templates for Startups
This is a repost of an article I originally wrote for the Wayra blog during my time as VC analyst. You can find the original article here. Shoutout to my former colleague Erik Hafner who helped a lot in creating the template. In the meantime I’ve actually received feedback from 2-3 startups that they successfully used this template during their funding rounds with VCs, which is super cool. Financial Planning Templates for Startups The template follows a top-down approach, where you can set your revenue target at the end of the third forecast year. Based on your inputs in the respective sheets (like planned headcount, costs, and annual contract value), it will calculate the necessary customers you’ll need to acquire to achieve your revenue target. ...