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How to Present Your Financial Model: 3 Steps to Success

When you’re trying to raise capital for a startup, no tool is more valuable than a solid financial model. With a good model in your corner, you have data to support your story and visuals to show the investor how the business will grow.

6 min read

Annual budget vs financial model – Which one should you use?

In today’s competitive economic climate, early-stage founders must be able to track and report their success using data. Investors want to see metrics, benchmarks, and milestones.

4 min read

How a Startup Financial Model Can Boost Your Business: A Monthly Playbook

The learning curve is always steep when you’re starting a new business from scratch. You don’t always know which marketing channels will be effective, which product features should be built first, or the order in which you should hire your key...

5 min read

How To Use A Financial Model in Your Pitch Deck: 3 Tips

As an early-stage founder, you know how difficult it can be to raise capital. Sometimes it feels like an impossible task. First, you fight tooth and nail to prove your concept. Next, you spend endless hours trying to find the right investors. And...

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5 Critical Questions a Solid Financial Model Answers for You

Ahh, yes, the exhilaration of being an early-stage startup. And by “exhilaration,” we mean terror. Just total, complete, absolute, abject terror.

3 min read

Top 5 Softwares to Raise Capital for a Startup Business

If you’re a typical founder, your average day probably looks something like this: Wake up, shower (hopefully), eat, raise capital, panic, raise capital, eat (hopefully), raise capital. Wake up and do it again tomorrow.

8 min read

Raising capital? Here’s how to build the ultimate investor pipeline

Raising capital is often the single most important challenge facing early-stage startup founders. It’s a daunting task, and it’s one that can keep founders awake at night, even when there’s plenty of VC money in the marketplace.

5 min read

Why You Should Update Your Financial Model (and How To Do It)

Your research is complete, and you have built a financial model that tells a great story about your startup. You’ve shared the model with investors, and it’s helping with your fundraising.

6 min read

8 Best Financial Model Software Tools Compared (2024)

A financial model can help you build trust with investors, improve the efficiency of your operations, and unlock valuable insights about your business. However, not all financial model software tools are created equal.