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D2C - Ecommerce Financial Forecasting

Woolman · info.woolman.io Free Intermediate

A forecasting-specific companion to the general modeling articles - useful for the founder who has a model built but needs to get better at the forward-looking assumptions that drive it.

  • Forecasting accuracy depends more on assumption quality than model complexity.
  • Revisit and re-forecast on a rolling basis rather than once a year.
  • Tie forecast assumptions back to actual channel-level performance data.
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It answers 2 questions

  1. What's the difference between a P&L, a cash flow statement and a balance sheet - and which one actually tells me if I'll run out of money?
  2. What are the biggest financial modeling mistakes D2C founders make?

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