Tool · Downloadable spreadsheet, 15 to 30 minutes to fill in

Startup Runway Calculator Template (Excel and Google Sheets)

The Startup Project Free Beginner

Once you accept that the spreadsheet lied about your cash, this template makes the timing gap concrete: you enter your real starting cash, revenue, and monthly expenses and it lays out burn, net cash, and runway month by month. It is free with no email wall, and the scenario tabs let you test what happens if you cut a fixed cost or push a hire out. Plug in your actual numbers rather than trusting a single average burn figure.

• Runway is just current cash divided by net monthly burn, and seeing it laid out month by month exposes the exact month you run dry.
• Because it separates revenue, headcount, and expenses, you can watch how trimming one fixed cost (a hire, a tool, an office) moves your runway more than chasing a few more sales.
• Model conservative, base, and aggressive cases so you are not planning off a single optimistic line.