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Re:My solo entrepreneur journey so far on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:21PM (#26971854)
Absolutely! I added my email to my profile.
Re:My solo entrepreneur journey so far on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:47AM (#26969318)
I think building it in Google Sheets is important because finance folks are comfortable with it and (if needed) can customize it to suit their needs. It's also hard to replicate Google Sheet's collaboration features like edit history on individual cells, real-time updates, comments/suggestions etc.

- A demo video is a great idea, I'll get started on that this week.

- Screenshots/video closer to the top is a good idea too, think maybe I need an image in the hero.

- Good point on the copy, I'll have to revisit this.

Really appreciate the suggestions!

Re:My solo entrepreneur journey so far on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:42AM (#26969248)
Yes I'm a CPA and was most recently director of finance at Stack Overflow. I've also done financial modeling consulting work over the years for many companies.
Re:My solo entrepreneur journey so far on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:41AM (#26969233)
Great point I'll definitely consider this, thanks!
Re:My solo entrepreneur journey so far on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:41AM (#26969225)
Really appreciate it! There are other tools, but a couple of the features that stand out are:

- onboarding simplicity to get up and running quickly. I created a 10 question onboarding form for the user, and from those responses I infer a company persona to pre-fill all the model's inputs based on SaaS industry benchmarks.

- simulations for projecting a range of revenue outcomes. These simulations incorporate a bunch of the model's inputs to produce an expected distribution of outcomes based on customer behavior. Even models that split out customers into cohorts don't capture the actual risk to the business if there's lots of churn in a month. They also don't capture the interaction between hiring plans (in reality many are based on revenue) and how those hires themselves affect revenue along the way (i.e. hiring in the sales department).

Re:My solo entrepreneur journey so far on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @07:22PM (#26963324)
Thanks, really appreciate that!
Re:My solo entrepreneur journey so far on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:58AM (#26956793)

My solo entrepreneur journey so far

Last week I launched my startup called FlowCog, it's a fully pre-built cash and revenue projection model in Google Sheets.I built everything myself, from the spreadsheet, to the Node/TypeScript accompanying Google Sheet Add-On. It took me about 11 months to build the spreadsheet, and to write and test the code that simulates staffing and customer behavior.Oh, and I also livestreamed myself...

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