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Your investors are going to ask how you got to your number. Do you have a real answer?Not a gut feeling or a rough estim...
10/15/2026

Your investors are going to ask how you got to your number. Do you have a real answer?

Not a gut feeling or a rough estimate based on what someone else raised, a model that shows your thinking, backs your assumptions, and tells the story of where your business is going.

That's what separates the founders who close from the ones who keep getting "let's stay in touch."

We're partnering with Gust for a free live Q&A where Logan Burchett & Ryan Nash is walking founders through financial modeling from the ground up.

If you have an hour on Oct 29th at 2:00 PM ET, this one is worth showing up for.

Register for free here: https://hubs.li/Q04B5v0W0

$3,000 was on the line Friday night at SF Tech Week.Gust, HubSpot for Startups, and Forecastr hosted a Flash Pitch Compe...
10/15/2026

$3,000 was on the line Friday night at SF Tech Week.

Gust, HubSpot for Startups, and Forecastr hosted a Flash Pitch Competition where 5 founders came to the stage for a chance to win the check.

Congrats to our winner, Kate Harline, and thank you to everyone who got up and pitched. It's a lot harder than it looks from the couch! Thanks as well to the Gust and HubSpot for Startups teams for co-hosting!

Would your financial model hold up if someone opened it in front of a full room?Two founders found out on Friday as they...
10/14/2026

Would your financial model hold up if someone opened it in front of a full room?

Two founders found out on Friday as they walked through their models live. At our Financial Model Teardown with Gust, Ryan Nash (CEO of Gust) and our co-founders Steven Plappert and Logan Burchett showed exactly where an investor would start poking. Then they fixed it on screen.

Big thanks to Ken Brownlee and Chris Lawes who volunteered! That takes some nerve with your own numbers. And thank you to Gust for co-hosting with us.

Last Thursday night in San Francisco, a room of founders pulled up a chair to hear how a $20M+ raise came together in a ...
10/14/2026

Last Thursday night in San Francisco, a room of founders pulled up a chair to hear how a $20M+ raise came together in a brutal market.

Thank you to Ryan Nash, CEO of Gust, our co-founders Steven Plappert and Logan Burchett for taking the chairs and getting specific about what the raise looked like from the inside.

If you were there, it was great to meet you! Swipe through for the night!

A great quarter is a risky time to write a hiring plan.Revenue is up, the team is stretched thin, and three new roles fe...
10/14/2026

A great quarter is a risky time to write a hiring plan.

Revenue is up, the team is stretched thin, and three new roles feel obvious. Six months later growth has leveled off a bit, payroll hasn't, and the runway math looks nothing like the spreadsheet everyone signed off on.

Hiring too fast is one of nine things Logan Burchett and Ryan Nash are walking through on October 22. Raising too late, burning too fast, taking money from the wrong investors and keeping no margin for error are on the list too. For each one they'll talk about the early signs and what to set up before it turns into a cash problem.

It's free and live at 2 PM ET, with time at the end for your questions.

Save your seat: https://hubs.li/Q04yWmy50

10/13/2026

Put your pitch deck and your revenue breakdown side by side. Do they tell the same story?

It's common to spend a big chunk of the deck on the customer segment that feels exciting, then find it barely moves revenue in the model. When 90% of your growth comes from one segment, that's where your time, budget, and slides should go.

A quick exercise: list your customer segments and write the share of projected revenue next to each one. Anything you're pouring real energy into that sits in the single digits deserves a hard look.

If your model doesn't break revenue out by segment yet, our free templates make that easy to set up: https://hubs.li/Q04zRyF50

We used to check retention once a quarter. That one habit ended up costing me most of my week, for months.By the time ch...
10/09/2026

We used to check retention once a quarter. That one habit ended up costing me most of my week, for months.

By the time churn showed up as a real problem, it had been building quietly for a while. Then fixing it took over everything else.

So if you’re past $1M and growth has slowed, don’t push sales any harder yet. Look at who’s leaving first.

Here’s what I’d do if I were starting over.

Check retention every month, not every quarter. A quarter is plenty of time for a small problem to grow quietly.

Watch for customers who go quiet. People rarely cancel out of nowhere. They log in less. They stop replying. Then they leave. If the cancellation is the first sign you notice, you’re months too late.

Give retention one owner. When everyone is responsible for it, nobody really is.

And be careful with the shortcuts you take to close deals. Special pricing and one-off promises feel like wins at the time. Later, they’re work you have to undo.

None of this is as exciting as a big sales push. But growth only adds up if the customers you win actually stay.

Picture Shark Tank, except three comedians are riffing on your deck in real time and you still have to close.That's Pitc...
10/08/2026

Picture Shark Tank, except three comedians are riffing on your deck in real time and you still have to close.

That's Pitch Roast Live, and it's coming to LA Tech Week on October 15! Four founders, three comedians, one VC, one winner. Nothing is scripted.

Comedians and investor alike take their swings at the pitch and the numbers as they hear them, and the founders who do best are the ones who laugh first and fix it second.

We've sponsored this show in three cities now and it has never once been boring. Bring a founder friend who needs the humbling.

Grab a ticket: https://hubs.li/Q04y8ZNR0

Thursday, October 15, 6 to 9 PM PT, Los Angeles.

Diligence has a way of finding the one number you were hoping nobody would ask about.Usually it's something boring. Reve...
10/08/2026

Diligence has a way of finding the one number you were hoping nobody would ask about.

Usually it's something boring. Revenue that doesn't match between the deck and the books. Expenses categorized one way in QuickBooks and another way in the model.

The business can be in great shape and still look disorganized on paper, and that makes an investor wonder what else hasn't been checked. A lot of it gets solved upstream, with the right tools set up long before you open a data room.

We're getting into what that setup looks like with Gust on Thursday, October 15. Logan Burchett and Ryan Nash will cover which tools earn a place in your stack and where founders tend to overbuy.

Register here: https://hubs.li/Q04yjS630 · Oct 15 at 2 PM ET

Every investor meeting you've ever taken was a single take.One shot at the question you didn't see coming, and the good ...
10/06/2026

Every investor meeting you've ever taken was a single take.

One shot at the question you didn't see coming, and the good answer only showed up ten minutes after the meeting ended. Pitch on Tap gives that question a retake button!

Happy hour with VCs at LA Tech Week, then a booth where you pitch an AI persona of each investor. Redo it until it's the version you'd actually send, and that's the one they get.

For founders raising in the next year, or anyone who wants to hear the hard question before it counts. Forecastr is co-hosting with Agora and Casuro.

Save your spot: https://hubs.li/Q04yg8g70

Tuesday, October 13, 5 to 6 PM PT, Los Angeles.

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