Runway and burn tracker
A month-by-month sheet for cash in, cash out, and the runway that falls out of the two.
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Scenario planner one-pager
Three runway scenarios on one page, so the plan survives the round closing late or small.
Runway is a cash calculation and a strategy choice at the same time. Too little forces reactive decisions. Too much creates dilution, spend pressure, and a false sense that the next milestone will arrive on its own.
A single runway number hides risk; a range makes the decision visible. This one-pager holds three cases and five dates, so the question stops being “do we have twelve months?” and becomes “when must we have enough evidence to choose the next path?”
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What is in it
- The milestone this runway has to reach
- Base case
- Downside case
- Decision case
- The five dates
- What you are watching, and what follows
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Starting early does not mean launching a public raise before the evidence is ready. It means holding optionality: knowing which milestone you are pursuing, which investors might fit, and which data has to improve first. And do not raise simply to extend time without changing the company's evidence — if the current plan is not working, more cash delays the decision and adds dilution without improving the outcome. Cutting scope, focusing on one segment, improving collections, or taking a different financing path may be the better move.
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