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Steph Nass

Financial Model Template ā€” The easiest way to build a financial model for your startup

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Building a well-structured, easy-to-use, accurate financial model for your startup takes dozens of hours - so we decided to do most of the work for you and came up with a template.
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Maximilian Fleitmann
Hey fellow Makers šŸ–ā¤ļø, Finally the day has come I have been working towards for almost a year. Over the past years, I have helped 200+ founders craft their perfect pitch deck and fundraising strategy. But one area that always felt a little rudimentary was the financial model. The process of building a well-structured, easy to use, and accurate financial model can take you dozens of hours if not days - so we decided to do most of the work for you. Today we are launching our first three Financial Model Templates: šŸ–„ SaaS šŸ’… DTC / eCommerce šŸž Plain Version Our goal is to guide you through the whole process of putting down your thoughts into a solid financial plan for the future of your startup.
šŸ’” Easy to understand & Edit šŸ“Š Beautiful charts & projections šŸ“‘ Financial Statements šŸš€ Happy planning! I hope you enjoy this resource and get some value! Let me know any feedback you may have and feel free to share the word about it! All the best, Max
Abishek Muthian
@maximilian_fleitmann Congratulations on the launch! I've added Base Templates to my curated list of startup tools at StartupToolchain - https://startuptoolchain.com/#fi... .
Maximilian Fleitmann
@porush_puri Thanks mate!
Alexey Shashkov
Hey guys. It's looking good, really. Congrats. But why is this template for $79-$99 better than @finmark-1 for $25/mo by @ramiessaid that makes financial modeling easier and eliminates the need for complex spreadsheets? Or @pry that makes the same things?
Maximilian Fleitmann
@shashcoffe Hey Alexey, thanks for asking. As always in life there are different approaches. If you like using a SaaS instead of working in Excel that's totally fine and I am sure there are also tons of other valuable templates for Excel or Google Slides out there. In the end, everyone has to decide for themselves which model he/she likes most. That's why we offer a free download to get a sense of the functionality. When we were building our model we were thinking of what we would have liked back when raising funds and for us, it was important to have a great design, much flexibility but still an easy-to-use sheet.
Steph Nass
@finmark @ramiessaid @pry @shashcoffe The problem is most VCs demand a spreadsheet and refuse a SaaS tool. Look at the comments on this Reddit thread, it's pretty clear: https://www.reddit.com/r/venture... In a perfect world, you could (a) build your model in a SaaS tool and (b) export it as a spreadsheet for stubborn VCs.
Aditya
Congratulations on the launch, ?makers! Would love to know if a Google Sheets version is also available? Btw, great work on the video, @maximilian_fleitmann šŸ˜Š
Maximilian Fleitmann
@adityavsc Thank you so much! I think you can easily import it into Google Sheets.
Ana Bibikova
Amazing and super helpful, especially for the first time founders! Love how you placed it - the area that is particular "rudimentary" :) Can't agree more. Congrats on the launch
Maximilian Fleitmann
@anab I have been in the shoes before ;) So I know where there problems are.
Steph Nass
Hey PH! Financial model templates for startups are usually heavy + complex. I like this model because it's lightweight, while robust enough for serious investor talks. If you're a tech founder building your first forecast, I highly recommend it! :D
Vadym Shcherbakov
Great tool! It might save a lot of resources for product managers to plan some new startup. Good luck and congrats on the launch! šŸš€
Maximilian Fleitmann
@vadim_shcherbakov Thank you very much!
That's a pretty damn cool product! Do you plan to expand your blog further? I really love what you are doing with it!
Maximilian Fleitmann
@krskgabriel Absolutely. Our goal is to support more founders over the next years with cool content.
Kerem Ali Kaynak
Dealing with financials for the first time is a gruesome process... Great product and congrats on the launch! I love products that allow founders to focus on building their company rather than spending too much time on fundraising ;)
Maximilian Fleitmann
@keremakaynak Thank you. Appreciate your thoughts.
Andi Lawley
This is awesome! Easy way for start ups to dive right into financials without worrying about the organization
Ritu J
Very excited to know more about this. being a startup founder, a financial model is something that I need to work on reguarly and need something like this to make my life easier.
Maximilian Fleitmann
@ritujhaveri Let me know if you have tried it.
Skand
Hey, I really like the templates as they crunched down the heavy task of building a financial model to an easier and proficient model that's equally functional.
Maximilian Fleitmann
@tandonsays Thank you so much!
Antonio Viggiano
Cool! Do you have a Google Sheets version?
Maximilian Fleitmann
@aviggiano You can just import it to Google Sheets and it should work fine ;)
R L
"It is based on sales generated by marketing", if you're looking to build something with actual utility I would rethink it
Rashid Khasanov
Congrats Max on the launch! Very much needed tool for founders!
Maximilian Fleitmann
@rashid_khasanov Thank you so much!
Dan Siepen
Max this is awesome mate! Very useful :)
Maximilian Fleitmann
@dansiepen Your ongoing support means a lot to me.
Joshua Voydik
This is cool! Wish we had these earlier :)
Maximilian Fleitmann
Appreciate it.
27mosshoe
This product helped me a lot already! I can only recommend it šŸš€
Maximilian Fleitmann
@27mosshoe Thank you so much!
Maximilian Fleitmann
@chrismo_vc @julian_droste Thanks for being a part of it!
Sina Sadegh
Such an awesome tool for founders! Amazing work
Maximilian Fleitmann
@sina_sadegh Means a lot Sina!
Bogdan Ionita
Looks great, awesome start-up resource
Maximilian Fleitmann
@bogdan_ionita Thank you Bogdan!