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Early-stage startups are still building their financial models with assumptions, forecasting everything from sales revenue to marketing costs to a basic cash flow projection. We're going to explain exactly how to build financial projections for your startup even if you have no idea where to start!

You know what they say — better to start them young. Kids still have a pure mindset where they think they can do anything, and it’s important to nurture that.

Assumptions are the raw materials that make up our financial statements and tell us whether we're headed toward gross profit or total disaster! Here, we'll be taking a beginning inventory of the 3 most important financial assumptions that tend to drive most startup company projections.

While we may not know all there is to know about our business yet, there’s still going to be some good old-fashioned accounting to do. So let’s break out those green visors and add machines — it’s time to learn WTF accounting is!

Startup financial projections are built around making a series of educated guesses about how things might go. In order to better understand the assumptions that make up our financial statements, let's first understand how little we actually know!

There’s no special black magic to recording income and expenses. In this primer, let's discuss how to understand the basic business financials to get your startup started on the right path.

For some Founders, when they experience failure, they immediately think that it’s the end. But failure has always been a part of the process and it will teach us valuable lessons along the way.

Making prototypes in China is a cost-effective way to test your product idea before selling it to consumers. In this article, we will explore the steps needed to create a prototype in China with advice from members of the Startups.com community.

Sometimes, we look at the success of others and immediately think we’re falling behind. Remember, success is a process, and we go through it in different phases.