1/ Thread: My presentation for Bangladeshi startups
North South University (NSU), a Bangladeshi university, invited me today to talk about financial modeling for the startups they are incubating. I started with a disclaimer that I never built any model for any startup...
2/ So my presentation was largely more qualitative than quantitative.
Here are my slides.
5 questions any business should ask.
3/ Why do you need to exist?
Relevant link: paulgraham.com/genius.html
4/ How do you know you have product market fit?
Relevant link: review.firstround.com/how-superhuman…
5/ How do you make money?
6/ What is your unit economics?
7/ Why can't others do what you do?
Relevant links:
Innovator's dilemma: amazon.com/Innovators-Dil…
Do things that don't scale: paulgraham.com/ds.html
8/ Before moving onto financial modeling, here's something to remember...
9/ Some thoughts on financial modeling
10/ Some benchmarks (general rule of thumb; not recommended to be indiscriminately used)
Relevant links:
BVP: bvp.com/atlas/scaling-…
The source of the table is not available online.
11/ Some final words on financial modeling
End/ All my twitter threads can be found here: mbi-deepdives.com/twitter-thread…
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