First-Time-Founders

Building a financial model usually starts with a blank page and a lot of clicking. Add a team role, fill in salary, set a start date, save. Now do it again for revenue, costs, and funding rounds. By the time you reach the projections tab, you have spent 30 minutes on data entry and have not made a single strategic decision. We wanted to fix that. Starting today, you can describe your business in plain text and Burncast builds the model for you. ...

You’ve been writing code for six months. You and your co-founder have a product, a handful of early customers, and a pre-seed round behind you. An investor wants to meet next week and you know they’re going to ask about your financial model. You don’t have one. You’re not even sure what goes in one. This is a normal place to be. Most technical founders haven’t built a financial model before. The problem isn’t intelligence. It’s that startup finance has its own vocabulary and conventions, and nobody teaches them to you until someone asks for a spreadsheet you don’t have. ...