Harvard Business School has a tool online to help you get your elevator pitch together called the HBS Elevator Pitch Builder. Granted, it’s intended for use by HBS Alumni, but it’s free to use and can be very helpful in your funding search. Check it out!
Financial projections (“pro-forma financials” or “pro-formas”) are a representation of what you think your company’s financial statements will look like in the future. Creating these documents is often an arduous task for the entrepreneur because it requires him/her to make many assumptions and to build a model based on those assumptions and industry research. Further, [...]
This is the bedrock of your pro-formas. To begin, you will estimate your revenue (also called sales). This is simply the amount of cash you are bringing into the company in exchange for the goods and services the company provides. Do you sell t-shirts for $10 each? Then the revenue or sales for each is [...]
