Three year financial model template for Excel or Google Sheets with prebuilt three statements - consolidated income statement, balance sheet, and stat… Read ›
Five year financial model template for Excel or Google Sheets with prebuilt three statements - consolidated income statement, balance sheet, and state… Read ›
The revenue model in the Standard Model enables you to model up to two revenue streams from one user base. Here's how you can add in more revenue stre… Read ›
'The Standard Model is the base model for all entrepreneurs to use for business planning and fundraising. Here's how to use it. Read ›
The default revenue model in the Standard Financial Model is prebuilt to handle a wide variety of business models. Here's an explainer on how it works… Read ›
How to model a Marketplace business, using the Standard Financial Model. Read ›
How to model an advertising-supported business, using the Standard Financial Model. Read ›
tl;dr, Check your acquisitions and conversions. Read ›
The new Starter Model is a re-imagined structure to provide the "Minimum Viable Model" for an entrepreneur to use for business planning and fundraisin… Read ›
How the Standard Model uses historical financials and creates rolling forecasts. Read ›
By default, the models are built by month for either 3 or 5 years. Here's how to extend them if you need to model more periods. Read ›
Here's how I use formatting to identify and denote the difference between assumptions and calculations in the models. Read ›
Valuing early-stage companies can be more of an art than a science. Here I'll explain the basics behind discounted cash flow (DCF) and multiple-based … Read ›
Three year financial model template for Excel or Google Sheets to plan your expenses, create a cash budget and forecast runway. Prebuilt with key char… Read ›
Five year financial model template to forecast sales, revenues, cost of sales, and (optionally) inventory levels for ecommerce, retail, and transactio… Read ›
Five year financial model template to forecast projects, staffing, revenues, and cost of sales for professional services and consulting businesses. Co… Read ›
Five year financial model template to forecast subscriptions, churn, bookings, billings, revenues, and cost of sales for SaaS and subscription-revenue… Read ›
Financial model template to create a cap table through multiple rounds of investments, and forecast how investment rounds impact ownership, dilution, … Read ›
How do you choose which Foresight template to use? The product comparison grids outline the differences in the features, and below is my perspective o… Read ›
Video course aimed at beginners to financial modeling to teach the foundations of how to build financial models for startups. 2 hours of instruction o… Read ›
Startups often present their financial projections incorrectly. Here's why, and what you need to do instead. Read ›
Foresight's Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) functionality allows you to build or bring your own growth and revenue model and easily use it to replace the … Read ›
Explaining how modules work with the Standard Model system. Read ›
The Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Financial Modeling Read ›
Three year financial model template for Excel or Google Sheets to forecast customers, bookings, billings, revenues, and cost of sales, for Consumer, S… Read ›
Leverage your Foresight model and be prepared for business planning and investor conversations. I've reviewed thousands of financial models created by… Read ›
The best resources, templates, and posts about financial modeling and startups on the web. Read ›
Here's a detailed look at consolidated financial statements, how to understand them, and the role they play in financial projections. Read ›
I offer free email support on all products, and a range of customization and custom services if you want further assistance. Read ›
Foresight's templates focus on using operational mechanics to forecast financials. Here's why. Read ›
Why should you build a financial model? Read ›
How to Integrate Foresight with Visible Read ›
Yes, financial models are always wrong, but that's not the point. This is why and how financial models are important to me. Read ›
Financial models can help entrepreneurs make critical business decisions. But it's more about the process than the result. Read ›
Modelhooks is a key feature to the Standard Model that makes the Bring Your Own Model functionality work. Here's how it works to make the process of i… Read ›
Learn how to build financial models specific to your startup to guide decision making and impress investors. Video course with 2 hours of instruction … Read ›
Estimating your cost budget is the first, and most important, step towards creating your financial projections. Read ›
How to model revenues using the top-down and bottoms-up approaches. Read ›
I've mentored at accelerators, lectured at universities, and taught seminars about financial modeling. I love helping entrepreneurs simplify their fin… Read ›
An overview of the Venture Portfolio Model, detailing how the sheets work and how to input the data about your portfolio. Read ›
An overview of the structure and assumptions in the Venture Investor Model. Read ›
You're thinking about applying to an accelerator, or you're picking which one to choose. Here's what to pay attention to. Read ›
Explaining how to use the Existing Investments sheet Read ›
Instructions on how to integrate the Ecommerce Module with the Standard Financial Model. Read ›
Instructions on how to integrate the Services Module with the Standard Financial Model. Read ›
Instructions on how to integrate the SaaS Module with the Standard Financial Model. Read ›
How to create the assumptions for startup financial models Read ›
I'm always looking to meet great people that combine financial modeling skills with business acumen to assist with my custom model services. Read ›
The models are updated based on feature requests and feedback from users, and updates are distributed through this website through your account. The C… Read ›
Hi! I'm Taylor. I created the financial models behind Foresight as a resource for entrepreneurs and early-stage startups to spend less time on finance… Read ›
Here's a few alternatives to Foresight to help you select the best financial modeling tool for your needs, and how you can combine any template with a… Read ›
Want to exchange, upgrade to a more advanced model or downgrade to a less advanced model? Here's how. Read ›
Here's a few intermediate-level Excel functions that have significantly improved my financial modeling skills. Read ›
I recommend using Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets for financial modeling, both in general and for Foresight templates specifically. Read ›
The FAST Standard is a guideline on how to construct good financial models. Here's an explainer of what the Standard aims to achieve and why I achieve… Read ›