Business Model Mapper · Startup Compass

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Business Model Mapper

Map out how your business could make money, test it against the funding model you have in mind, and get an honest read on whether it holds together. Takes about eight minutes.

All figures are in Australian dollars, excluding GST.

Free with a Startup Compass account. You'll set one up when you start.

Preview

Here's the kind of read you'll get on your model once you finish the questions.

Example

B2B SaaS · monthly subscription

Overall

Works

The maths holds, and your funding plan fits the shape.

Does the maths work?

Works

The margin and payback maths for this model holds together.

Margin: 82%Payback: 9.4 months

How big can it get?

Works

At your numbers, the most this model could produce is around $4.8m a year. That clears the $2m to $10m mark you're aiming for. If you got anywhere near it, that would be a substantial company, and very few models convert their theoretical ceiling into real revenue.

Who funds a model like this?

You're planning to fund this with your customers' revenue, and the model you've described supports that.

Your customers. The default for most businesses, and the only funding that never dilutes you. Your payback maths supports it.
Angel investors. Australian angels typically write $20k to $250k cheques and look for early traction around $10k a month in revenue plus a model that scales beyond your own hours. Angels back a small minority of what they see, so treat this as possible, not probable.
Venture capital doesn't fit this shape because there's no visible path past $20m in annual revenue. That rules out the funding type, not the business.

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