Stop building spreadsheets from scratch — here's the financial model every pre-seed founder needs
Building financial projections for your startup is painful. You've got 47 spreadsheets open, formulas that break when you sneeze, and your co-founder keeps asking "when will we be profitable?"
I've been there. That's why I built the Pre-Seed Financial Model — Google Sheets.
What this solves
If you're raising a pre-seed round (or planning to), investors will ask for financial projections. The problem? Most founders either:
- Spend 3 weeks building from scratch and still get the formulas wrong
- Pay $2,000+ for a fractional CFO
- Wing it with basic revenue/expense lists
None of these work well.
The 6-tab system
This model gives you exactly what investors want to see:
Dashboard — key metrics at a glance: revenue, burn rate, runway, gross margin
Revenue Model — 3 product tiers with customer acquisition and churn forecasting
Expenses — pre-built categories with growth rate assumptions
Cash Flow — opening balance → revenue → expenses → closing balance (with funding rounds)
Unit Economics — CAC, LTV, LTV/CAC ratio with automatic scoring
Investor Summary — valuation estimate, dilution calculator, IRR projection
Why Google Sheets?
Because investors want to play with your assumptions. A PDF is dead. A link to a Google Sheet they can copy and tweak? That's gold.
Try it
Grab the template at MicroTools Studio — it's $29, all formulas pre-coded, and you'll have investor-ready projections in about an hour.
Perfect for: pre-seed founders, startup consultants, and anyone who needs a bank-ready model without burning their budget on fractional CFOs.
Built by MicroTools Studio — financial tools for founders who'd rather build than spreadsheet.
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