5 Key Financial Slides in Your Pitch Deck
A key to gaining funding is making numbers visible through easily readable financial slides in your pitch deck. Investors are like Rod Tidwell in “Jerry Maguire” ~ they want you to SHOW THEM THE MONEY ~ literally. Here’s a few key financial forecasting charts and graphs to include in your pitch deck that make your […]
SumoSum Launches New Paradigm in Financial Forecasting for Startups & Entrepreneurs
SumoSum launched this week as a financial forecasting software app to empower startups, entrepreneurs, nonprofits and students with a new paradigm in business concept development based on running the numbers first. Says founder and author Steve Sue, “Decks are pretty. B-plans informative. But numbers dictate outcomes like funding and profitability. And with numbers come footnotes […]
5 Tips to Making Startup Financials Believable
In the startup world, it’s all about making a believable “hockey stick,” i.e., a growth or sales chart that takes a fast turn for the better and just keeps ascending. If you want funding or notoriety, you better have a hockey stick. But anyone can make a hockey stick in financial modeling, thus the challenge is making one that you can actually defend.
Free Consulting Sessions via SumoSum Podcast
During our Beta Launch phase, SumoSum offers free 30-minute forecasting sessions with your choice of one of the founding SumoSum authors. To be eligible for a free session, you must be a SumoSum member and agree to your session being taped and distributed as a SumoSum Podcast episode.
Hello World: SumoSum Enters Ring of Startup Software Apps
We’re excited to introduce SumoSum, the latest in startup software apps. Over the last decade, we’ve created innovation and entrepreneurship curriculum and apps. And while we’ve had a fair share of wins, we’ve also suffered at least our fair share of mistakes along the way, like not moving fast enough to stay with an evolving market.