Today I’ve been head and knee deep into our financial forecast for the next 18 months. That brings us to July 2017. Quite a long time away and yet, not really that far away at all.
It’s a bit of a head bender, but the more I get into the numbers the more I enjoy it. I’m fairly new to this but I love to see how a change in one area impacts another. And the geek in me love the Excel formulas and setting them up. It’s nothing fancy, but still, with sheets for sales forecast, earning breakdowns, staff costs etc., it feels a little like choreographing a dance, or telling a story through the numbers, of where Glimt is at and where we are heading.
Until the end of last year I’ve not been very good at using these forecasts as the tool they actually are, but as I’m looking at Glimt with more critical eyes, these spreadsheets are drawing me in. Not just through the fascination that lies in the numbers dancing together as you change, add or subtract, but through what they actually mean. The potential, what we could accomplish and how little it actually would take to get over that initial hurdle and give Glimt a proper push.
The more I work on our pitch presentation for tomorrow, the more I really want to raise a seed round. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that a seed round would help financially, but now that I for the first time am breaking down what we need, how we’d use it and where it would take us, the more it feels like the right path.
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