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Cost to exist, and runway in months

What the business costs every month just to stay switched on, and how many months the cash on hand actually buys you.

Most solo operators are bleeding a few hundred a month on tools they forgot about. Revenue is vanity, and what is left after fees, ads, tools, refunds and tax is the business.

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Everything the business pays for monthly

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The rest of it

Pay yourself something from the beginning, even if it is small. A business that never pays you is a hobby with paperwork.

Use a rolling three month average, not your best month.

Money you can actually spend. Not money held by a processor and not money already owed to tax.

Runway

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Reading it. Cash timing kills more small businesses than profitability does. Processors hold funds, ads bill immediately, and refunds come out today. The tax line is set at 25 percent as a placeholder, and your accountant will give you the real rate.

The quarterly job this calculator is for

Cancel anything you did not open this month. Dead subscriptions cost money quietly, and the same is true of automations nobody checks, which cost money and report success while they do it. Solo means low fixed costs, and that is your entire resilience.

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