Daily Post #492 Happy Math
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Dec 10, 2022
When making your financial forecast, it’s easy to start doing “happy math” and ending up with zeroes and the classic hockey stick projection.
Sorry but it won’t look like that.
Understand that it will take longer (usually x2) and cost more (usually x2) to what you originally counted on, and no, you won’t get 100 000 users day 1, so please take that into account and add a slow ramp-up.
You can of course talk about the possibility of everything working out as planned, but that very seldom happens.
Don’t do “happy math”, do math, simple as that.
