Long Term Models for Startups or Acquisitions or …

 If you are raising money for a startup, considering an acquisition, you want a long term model for converting free to paid or for any other reason the MPMW stands alone. You can build a full financial model that:

Lets you develop and refine your long term plan.

Makes it easy to look at worst-case scenarios.

Quickly and convincingly answers what-if questions from investors and upper management.

Presents your plan in a readily readable form that gives investors or management confidence that you have ‘done your homework’.

You can use your model to print circulation reports, P&Ls, cash flows and balance sheets, but the most useful report is a print-out of the assumptions you put into the model.

At a glance investors or managers can see your assumptions about:

New business production by source over time, including price and term, credit, cancel and bad debt percentages, and renewal assumptions.

Expected newsstand sales, ad sales and ancillary product sales over time.

Hiring plans, including salaries and planned raises.

Expenses, including production and distribution, editorial, ad sales, fulfillment, G&A and any other expense categories.