Perhaps you've been there. Or maybe you are struggling with that right know. You are bright, smart and creative and came up with your great business idea. Maybe you are a stellar rocket engineer that just developed and electric solar-powered space ship that will change our commuting to the moon. Or maybe you just want to open a new bakery that will sell cookies baked according to your grandma's recipe.

And you are half-way to your own business and later to your first earned million. But you need to find the investors. And what do the investors wants to see? Success? Opportunity? No! They want to see money. So you need to put together your financial projections, financial statements, financial ratios, charts, scenario analysis and business plan. But where can you get all that? Should you just start your MBA course right know? Or should just kiss your dream goodbye and jump out of the window?

No. We are here to make your life easier by providing you an advice on how to prepare your set of financials for your start up. Start-up financial modeling for dummies if you will. That's why I am starting this blog - to help potential entrepreneurs with limited financial background to put together their financial projections fast and without the need to understand the complexity of financial statements. I have developed and Excel spreadsheet and gave it the name Feanut Financial Model, because it reduces the complexity of financial modeling for a start-up business to the size of a peanut.

All you need to understand is some basic assumptions about your potential business, such as how much do you plan to sell, for what prices, how many employees will you have or what equipment do you need to buy. These will represent the data inputs into the model. And believe it or not, the model will take care of everything else.

So in this blog I will be covering topics such as:

• Modeling sales assumptions
• Modeling costs - direct and indirect, fixed and variable
• Capital expenditures
• Personnel expenses and headcount
• Financing - both debt and equity
• Scenario modeling
• Financial statements
• Financial ratio analysis
• Valuation
• and more...