How many paying members do we have in total?
Putting that number at 50, for example, almost completely cuts out our
future debt. I thought it was above 50, at one point. We should probably
keep track of any seasonal trends for times like these.
(Really, you should talk with Jay for most of the real figures)
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Jenkins
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 11:08 AM
To: Discuss, SkullSpace
Subject: [SkullSpace-Discuss] honeymoon is over, time to budget is now
It was a sweet deal while we had it folks but now we're going to be
faced with the true costs of operating a large space.
As was said a long time ago, benevolant landlords (in this case it was
accidental) don't last forever.
I disagree with yesterday's assertion that we should hold off on any
budgetting efforts until a new contract is presented to us and until
final renovation quotes are in.
We already have the big picture in front of us, I'm presenting some
initial numbers that are in the ballpack to help set up expectations and
get things moving.
The joy of proper spreadsheeting (and programming in general) is that
you can state an assumption in one place, use that assumption in
multiple places and then update it easilly as you get better information.
And we'll be able to wrap up the budgetting process and make a final
decision much quicker after recieving "final" numbers if the structure
if the budget and and other numbers are already in place.
Do we really want to recieve a new offer and only then start a
budgetting process?
Here's a projected month by month cash flow as a spreadsheet, second
sheet in these files is where the assumptions are stated in a single
place for use on the main page:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16487130/skullspace_budget.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16487130/skullspace_budget.ods
Note that current assumptions show us running out of cash pretty quickly
and that monthly project funding, promo funding, supply funding, and
tool funding are all gone -- all our cash out is to basic operational needs.
It's mostly guess work here until I get your corrections folks. Even the
rent (which need not be a secret) I'm not actually sure on, I just took
the known 4000sq ft and $4/sqrtft/year to get $1,333.
The "Mark budget strike force" will consist of folks challanging the
assumptions in these spreadsheets by email, providing updates as they
become available, and me making the edits (I'm taking the super easy
job). New editions will appear at the above two file links.
If there's conflicting views on particular assumptions / numbers, folks
with those conflicting views can be locked in a room with each other
until they come ot agreement or until enough information becomes available.
I'm not wed to any of the numbers I posted, so I'm not doing face to
face stike force meetings unless folks who diagree with each other on
particular numbers want me to step in for mediation or arbitration.
If anyone wants to form their own budget strike force now or later with
a tottally a different process, go for it -- we can steal each others
numbers. :)
Mark
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