Financial model excel formatting

Excel financial model formatting guide

Tl;dr: Building a huge Excel model is great, using it easily is awesome. The foundation is in your formatting and knowing the code of what colors to use. It’s simple, but you need to know the rules. Then you have to apply them as frequently as you breathe. I’m going to teach you how to use font colors consistently and …

Why you need a financial model to fundraise

Why you need a financial model to fundraise

Tl;dr: Why you need to have a financial model when you are fundraising for your startup. Investors want one and they have the cash you want. Good financial models help you to understand what you are doing to give better answers to investors which will encourage them to party with their money. Do you have to have a financial model? …

polar bear hunting for startups

Polar Bear Hunting to understand your target audience

Tl;dr: A simple analogy to understand who your audience is and how to define them so you can go looking for them effectively. This applies to anything, including finding a cofounder, or looking for sales prospects. I teach this to literally everyone.  Every single time I’m on a call and they’re wondering about their target audience, or even why things …

Actually getting your first customers at a startup

Tl;dr: Just because you hear a great piece advice, doesn’t mean that you will actually do it. I’m going to give you are real example of how a client could do something that don’t scale but wasn’t doing it. I want to give you a wake-up call to take action now and get your first customers. Pretty much everyone has …