Planning to get your business up and running? What if you could predict where your production business would be in a few years from now? Wouldn’t that be great? This is not easy unless you have a fortune teller or someone capable of traveling to the future and back. The Flash, maybe?
Thanks to a software known as Startup Product Manager earlier called Predicted Desire, you won’t have to rely on a fortune teller or some comic book character because it can all be done with this simple program. Bear in mind that this is just software designed by human developers; don’t go in expecting magical things to happen out of thin air.
NOTE: Predicted Desire is now called Startup Product Manager (StPM).
Startup Product Manager for Windows
Startup Product Manager is a free Windows software forecasts & tells you how much money you need to start and run a business. It is a startup product calculator.
From what we can tell, the software is capable of calculating various business-related metrics. For example, cost, net profit, and efficiency are just a few of the aspects this program can address. Right away, you can see the combined effects for up to 48 months, allowing business owners to plan their future accordingly.
After launching Startup Product Manager for the first time, the program shows us a calculator and a window that required us to choose our specified simulation. After that, the software will display the main window, allowing users to get things up and running to view what they want to see.
The following are some input parameters that we could specify:
- Number of employees
- Salary per hour
- Work hours per day
- Work days per month
- Fixed cost per month
- Fixed income per month
- Energy cost
- Price
- Daily sales
- Daily production
When it comes down to target values, the following is what the program allowed us to choose from:
- Bank account balance
- Total income per month
- Net profit per month
- Total cost per month
- Total production cost per month
- Total material and energy cost per month
- Daily employee production time
- Total employee cost per month
- Single employee cost per month
- Daily income
- Daily production cost
- Single unit/product production
At the top of the main user interface, a slider is available to select our desired period. In the lower section, it displays the date and the total number of months.
The Startup Product Manager will draw up graphs in real-time, and the outcome depends on the choices made. There’s also a feature called the Result Graph, which displays the development of all specified input and target values over the selected time frame.
Bear in mind that some curves have similar colors, so if you want to focus on a single one, chances are, you might have to disable a few and only leave the main curve in focus.
Download Startup Product Manager from the official website.
Verdict
Startup Product Manager is a great financial tool, don’t go in expecting it to be easy to understand. It isn’t easy at times, but once you understand what the program is intended to do for you, it should become smooth sailing after a while.
