PART I – BEFORE YOU BEGIN
1. Not Accounting
2. No Templates
3. Lemonade
4. A Spreadsheet
5. A Story
6. Assumptions
7. Commas, Currency, and Precision
8. Rows and Columns
9. Iteration
PART II – FINANCIAL CONCEPTS
10. The Unit Sale
11. Cost of Goods
12. Numbers of Units
13. One Glass of Lemonade
14. Back of the Envelope
PART III – YOUR PLAN
From Blank Sheet to Financial Plan
Month 1
Month 2
Month 3
Month 4
Months 5-12
Visualization
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Iterate… Iterate… Iterate.
One of The Next Step guides, this book takes you step by step through the process of building a financial plan for your startup, including revenue projections, estimated expenses, investments, loans, and a focus on cash.
This process answers a few key questions about your business. Will it ever make money? If so, when? If so, how much money, people, and resources will be needed to reach that goal?
