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Re: Show HN: Startup funding simulator

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Post by jimmydddd »

risenshinetech wrote: post #70

This is a calculator, not a simulator. What exactly are you simulating? This takes a number of fixed inputs and produces a fixed output over some very coarse, manually controlled time steps. It's like saying using a calculator to add up the last few months of income/expenses is a "financial simulator".

I'd say it's more like adding up future months' income/expenses where the future months' income/expenses can be changed based on different projected scenarios, thus simulating those different scanarios.

Re: Show HN: Startup funding simulator

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Post by joshelgar »

risenshinetech wrote: post #70

This is a calculator, not a simulator. What exactly are you simulating? This takes a number of fixed inputs and produces a fixed output over some very coarse, manually controlled time steps. It's like saying using a calculator to add up the last few months of income/expenses is a "financial simulator".

What was the point of you being pedantic? It simulates what happens in different scenarios.

Re: Show HN: Startup funding simulator

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Post by withinboredom »

baq wrote: post #13
zikero wrote: post #12

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pre-tax though

if you pay taxes you're winning if you have to pay taxes but don't have cash to do it, you're losing. fix something

Or hire better accountants. No, I’m not talking about the creative kind, but the kind that tell you “hey, your cash reserves are projected to be too low” kind.

If your accountants are telling you when it’s too late; you are losing. Hard.

Re: Show HN: Startup funding simulator

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Post by romanhn »

user_7832 wrote: post #76
codegeek wrote: post #62

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The thing with Funding is that you shouldn't really need it but it's more of a fuel when there already is fire (aka PMF). Once you have the fire (most people fail to get to this point anyway), then you decide if fueling that fire with VC dollars make sense or not for your goals. The problem is that lot of entrepreneur need funding to even start because they don't have enough resources to start something (may be they…

Thank you, that makes sense. Btw is PMF = product market fit in this context? > They fund because you are able to convince them somehow that you are building a unicorn. I'm admittedly very naïve about this, but do they really expect this all the time? (Especially in physical and non-digital markets?) If you have a healthy growth and projection but no plans to say exceed 100M are you limited by how many VCs are intere…

The big VCs typically will expect extreme growth, because the big wins are needed to make up for the losses they will incur on many of the their other portfolio companies. That said, there are smaller VCs and private equity firms who will be happy to fund companies with lesser aspirations. Just don't expect comparably big valuations and you'll likely need to cede more control for less money.

Re: Show HN: Startup funding simulator

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Post by blackmesaind »

gtirloni wrote: post #57
sdflhasjd wrote: post #46

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Probably the annoying taxman who takes 20% of your $infinity, which just so happens to also be $infinity.

Your infinity is larger though so it's all good.

Not quite, anything subtracted from itself is zero. However, if you send me Infinity bitcoin, I will send you 10 Infinity bitcoin back (I am Expert Hacker).

Re: Show HN: Startup funding simulator

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Post by Solvency »

urbandw311er wrote: post #77
risenshinetech wrote: post #70

This is a calculator, not a simulator. What exactly are you simulating? This takes a number of fixed inputs and produces a fixed output over some very coarse, manually controlled time steps. It's like saying using a calculator to add up the last few months of income/expenses is a "financial simulator".

This seems like a rather pedantic objection in my opinion. “Simulation” here likely refers to a potential scenario such as a raise or an exit, or even an entire hypothetical venture.

Not really pedantic to me. Am I the only one here old enough to remember "Drug Wars" on the Ti calculators? That was an actual sim game. This is not that.

Re: Show HN: Startup funding simulator

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Post by Fawlty »

It’s cool that you’ve built it! It truly gets complicated, especially when at later stage you start getting venture debt (not safes), more demanding LiqPref and you’re facing an exit at a price which is not ideal. Tbh I usually end up with bespoke excel files for each company to have a full understanding of waterfall for all parties and be able to simulate their payout and incentives at different exit price. But I’m sure even this tool can be helpful - if you need any help with that, lmk!

Re: Show HN: Startup funding simulator

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Post by todd3834 »

sdflhasjd wrote: post #46
blackmesaind wrote: post #40

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Why don't we use this hack IRL?

Probably the annoying taxman who takes 20% of your $infinity, which just so happens to also be $infinity.

Reminds me of Hilbert’s paradox of the Grand Hotel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_paradox_of_the_Gra...

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