Forecastr blog

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How Can Startups Make the Most of Holiday Season?

The holiday season is the time when everyone is cherishing their free time with their loved ones, taking time off from the daily 9 to 5 grind. However, if you are an entrepreneur and are dealing with a startup, you can use this free time to improve...

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How to build the ultimate revenue formula

As founders, almost every action we execute supports maximizing revenue, whether directly through sales or indirectly through our mission and values.

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Should your company use paid ads? (free calculator)

Paid advertisements are a highly popular, often effective strategy to increase website traffic and grow your startup. They are also a great way to lose money. As founders, how do we know when paid ads will work for our business? We need to...

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Our top 10 favorite financial modeling articles

If you’ve searched “how to build a financial model” on the Google machine recently, you’ve already seen an information overload on conflicting strategies, repetitive information, and perhaps some dubious guides to success. The team at Forecastr...

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Top 5 SaaS Analytics Tools to Grow Your Startup

Here at Forecastr, we constantly preach the importance of understanding your growth metrics to forecast the future. Marketing analytics provide critical understanding behind your growth strategy to pave the way for long-term vision. Armed with this...

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The 4 Best Productivity Hacks for Founders

The importance of productivity for founders transcends the outdated time management principles of large corporations. With limited resources across our small teams, any inefficiency accumulates inevitable, insurmountable waste.

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Do you really need to hire a fractional CFO before your series A?

Real talk. The future is bleak for most startups. According to a recent Forbes study, approximately 90% of startups fail. That dismal number includes 75% of all venture-backed startups. So let’s ask the obvious question: Why?

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5 Critical assets you need for series A fundraising

If you’re a founder preparing for your Series A funding, you might be feeling a bit overwhelmed. The list of things you need to do is growing rapidly as you move through the fundraising process, and you might even start to feel like you’re in over...

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4 Books Every Startup Founder MUST Read

In a world of financial forecasts, imminent startup challenges, and a global pandemic, the founders here at Forecastr have still managed to knock out our summer reading. From hundreds of books on the Amazon marketplace, we have selected our top four...