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18 Ways to Make Your Financial Model Stand Out to Investors

David Teten

So often I speak with companies that have charged ahead building an ultra-complex daily or weekly model with thousands of assumptions and complex dashboard outputs, when their potential investors simply want a high-level 24 month forecast with 12 months of reconciling historical data.”. HOW TO MAKE YOUR CELLS READABLE.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

People, not just metrics. I'm from New York, upstate New York. But you go to New York City and people just kind of. Brian Chesky : And also humans are not good at forecasting or creating a mental model around something that's never happened before. Eric Ries : Metrics are people too.