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Startup Founder Essentials — Course 7: Startup Finance and Unit Economics
Use explicit financial boundaries to interpret contribution, acquisition economics, customer value and cash timing, then choose a proportionate startup decision.
startup financeunit economicscontributionbreak evencustomer acquisition costcustomer valuecash flowworking capitalburnrunwayscenarios
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Startup Founder EssentialsCourse 7 of 12
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Lesson list
- Read the financial picture without collapsing it into one numberSeparate commercial activity, accounting results and cash movement, then state the boundaries that make a financial number interpretable.
- Define the unit, contribution and break even boundaryCalculate contribution and break even from an explicit unit, cost and period boundary, then test whether the result is operationally possible.
- Match acquisition cost to acquired customers and paybackMatch acquisition spending to eligible acquired customers, calculate contribution payback and preserve attribution and timing limits.
- Estimate customer value without turning projection into evidenceSeparate observed contribution from projected customer value and calculate only what the cohort and supplied model support.
- Model cash timing, working capital, burn and runwaySequence cash receipts and payments, identify the lowest balance and interpret working capital, burn and runway under explicit availability rules.
- Build scenarios, compare actuals and choose the financial next actionConnect unit economics and cash timing through coherent scenarios, comparable actuals and a decision tied to the controlling constraint.
- Startup finance and unit economics reasoningApply the course capabilities to unfamiliar operating economics, cash survivability and financial decision cases.