Financial Models

http://www.kpcb.com/blog/how-to-craft-a-concise-pitch-investors-will-care-aboutHere is a great resource I found on the web showing different models:
http://www.exinfm.com/free_spreadsheets.html

Here is a great article giving an overview of what you want to accomplish and the critical moving pieces:  http://teten.com/blog/2011/11/09/startup-financial-models-best-practices-in-spreadsheet-design/

I have found some great resources on Financial Models and have started to modify them.  This will be good background for working with Brian. I could easily go into analysis paralysis mode but have started with Teten model and it is working out okay.  So far so good.

Here are some random links that I want to take a look at later and so I want to document them for now:

• Equity:  https://foresight.is/learn/employee-equity
• Mistakes raising money: http://blog.samaltman.com/fundraising-mistakes-founder-make
• y-Compinator Funding:  http://paulgraham.com/fr.html
• Funding Pitch: http://www.kpcb.com/blog/how-to-craft-a-concise-pitch-investors-will-care-about
• Pitch Decks: http://nextviewventures.com/blog/free-startup-pitch-decks-template/
• http://venturehacks.com/articles/deck
• Financial Model Information:
• http://www.seedstagecapital.com/2011/01/your-startup-financial-model-is-work-of.html
• http://www.starterfinancialmodel.com/
• http://guykawasaki.com/glenn-kelmans-f/
• https://foresight.is/standard-financial-model
• Financial Metrics:
• http://tomtunguz.com/ten-financial-metrics/
• http://a16z.com/2015/08/21/16-metrics/
• Employee Options
• http://teten.com/blog/2011/11/17/valuing-startup-employee-options/

Other resources that could be useful:

https://davidcummings.org/category/entrepreneurship/