[SiliconBeach] Pre-revenue sales forecasts

2013-09-23 Thread Steven Noble
Hi all, Have any of you had to prepare a short but convincing sales forecast when you are still largely pre-revenue? How did you go about it? I can estimate my total addressable market -- the research market, which Esomar says is worth $32.1 billion. But of course I'm initially targeting a

Re: [SiliconBeach] Pre-revenue sales forecasts

2013-09-23 Thread Elias Bizannes
All pre revenue forecasts are bullshit. You're selling a story so pick the data that sounds the most convincing. Costs allocated per unit help for profit calculations not sales forecast.  What might make sense is to pick an activity which drives sales and use that to scale your revenue