Marketplace Financial Model

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What you get: Model is one .xlsx Excel file and is downloaded immediately. Can be used in Excel, Google Docs, and many other spreadsheet programs. Email for support anytime. One time purchase, updates automatically distributed for free.

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Details: The Marketplace Financial Model is a fully-functioning financial model for Excel (.xlsx) that:

- Forecasts the potential future of your marketplace business. This is a fit for any business that builds a two-sided marketplace and has to build buyers and sellers, providers, or suppliers; it is a fit for businesses such as on-demand service companies and ecommerce marketplaces, and many other types of two-sided marketplace businesses where the revenue streams are from a share of transactions, fees from buyers or sellers, and others.

- Demonstrates to investors, executives, and yourself that the fundamentals of your business are solid using key operational and financial metrics: the model automatically computes key marketplace metrics based on a set of flexible inputs around customers, average order volume, repeat customers, suppliers, marketplace liquidity, customer acquisition costs, and much more.

- Creates estimates of user / buyer acquisition and seller / supplier acquisition based on paid and organic acquisition strategies.

- Creates revenue forecasts easily with a simple set of assumptions, but with more powerful inputs available for extensive fine-tuning of forecasts.

- Creates detailed expense forecasts broken down by cost of goods sold (COGS) and selling, general and administrative (SG&A) costs.

- Create full financial statements, including income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flows.

- Creates charts to show changes in key business and operational metrics, including (if applicable) gross merchandise volume, liquidity, buyer to seller ratio, customer acquisition costs (CAC), long-term value (LTV), and more.

- Creates funding estimates and capitalization table to estimate ownership structure.

- Works for any currency; Foresight models have been used by entrepreneurs from over 98 countries.

The model uses a mix of assumptions to estimate all revenue and cost line-items monthly over a flexible five year period, and then sums the monthly results into quarters and years for an easy view into the various time periods. For all inputs, you can easily set the start date and year for key decisions and the model adjusts automatically.

All formulas and sheets are open for editing, anything is open for editing. I don't believe that models should be locked, everything should be open for you to edit so that you can model your business exactly as you want.

Purchase Options: The model can be purchased alone or as a part of two packages:

- Model. The base model, downloadable immediately, and created to be able to be used by anybody to create a powerful set of projections in less than an hour. Email customer support about how to use the model is included in all model purchases.

- Model + Video Course. Targeted for beginners to financial modeling that want to learn the concepts of how to create a financial model, the video course is not a "how-to" for the model, but a deep dive into the fundamentals of building a financial model for startups in general. The video course is for beginners to financial modeling that want to learn the concepts of how to create a financial model. It is not a "how-to" for the model, but a deep dive into the concepts in how to build a model. People inexperienced with financial modeling that want to fully leverage and edit the template should consider taking the Video Course. You will get a separate email after purchase to access the course, which is at http://learn.foresight.is

- Model + Get Started. 3 Hours of assistance in completing the model, customization and review. Focus is on structuring and adjusting inputs for your business, and refining unit economics, cost budget, financial statements, and financing strategy. Additional customization may be necessary depending on your business; to be determined and billed separately. More details at http://foresight.is/services , or contact taylor@foresight.is