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How to Present an Operating Plan to your Board

Kellblog

One year of forecast. This year that’s your 2022 forecast, which is your first through third quarter actuals combined with your fourth-quarter forecast. The next block focuses on headcount: Total employees, at end of period. So, present context. Specifically: One year of history. This year that’s 2021.

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There’s more than one path to $100 million

The Angel VC

The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded. Let’s say you have a CAC payback time of 12 months, i.e. your fully-loaded customer acquisition costs equal 12 months of gross profit. The second issue is the timing of some of the major expenses.

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There’s more than one path to $100 million

Point Nine Land

The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded. Let’s say you have a CAC payback time of 12 months, i.e. your fully-loaded customer acquisition costs equal 12 months of gross profit. Setting yourself up for T2D3-style growth usually comes with a very high burn rate?—?hundreds