Workshops & Webinars
Build your business model
with numbers, not guesses
Interactive workshops on Business Model DNA, financial planning, investor readiness and AI strategy. Available online worldwide or on-site. In English and German.
Business Model DNA (BMDNA)
Participants explore business model mechanics and develop their company's individual BMDNA.
- Mutual introduction and individual agenda
- Business Model Mechanism (BMM)
- Business Model DNA (BMDNA)
- Business goals determination
- BMDNA impact on objectives
- Status quo assessment
- Opportunities and risk evaluation
- Lean Analytics methodology
- Investor persuasion strategies
- Financial planning integration
- Summary and takeaways
- Format
- Video conference, small groups
- Duration
- 4 hours incl. breaks
- Languages
- English & German
- Audience
- Teams, accelerators, universities, companies
- Includes
- PDF handout
BMDNA-based Financial Planning
Master the art of traditional financial planning and revolutionize your approach with the Business Model DNA.
- Introductions and individual agenda
- Classic profit and loss (P&L): sales planning, cost of sales, margins, personnel, operating costs, depreciation, EBITDA, EBIT
- Classic liquidity planning: operating, investing, financing cash flows, funding needs
- Financial ratios, metrics, and chart creation
- Business Model Mechanism (BMM) and BMDNA as foundation for financial planning
- Excel template: BMM and BMDNA concepts automate P&L, liquidity, ratios, and charts
- Roadmap as foundation: product releases, market entry, financing rounds
- Target group modeling including TAM metrics
- Acquisition channel modeling over time
- Conversion step modeling with time delays
- Active user, customer, and partner relationship modeling
- Revenue model variations and templates
- Personnel planning: roles, positions, team structures, compensation, FTE calculations
- Operational cost modeling with variable cost structures
- Investment and depreciation modeling
- Financing activities: equity, venture capital, loans, grants
- Scenario modeling and key metric identification for navigation
- Summary, template customization, and plan vs. actual reporting
- Format
- Video conference, small groups
- Duration
- 4 hours incl. breaks
- Languages
- English & German
- Audience
- Teams, accelerators, universities, companies
- Includes
- PDF handout + Excel template
Who is this for?
Target Audiences
Entrepreneurs & Founders
Become an expert in classical and BMDNA-based financial planning. Learn how to use the individual mechanism and levers of your business model as a basis for detailed financial planning, business model navigation, investor outreach, and reporting.
Managers & Consultants
Expand your expertise in both classical and model-based financial planning for precise analysis, decision-making, and project delivery.
Investors & M&A
Evaluate business model mechanisms and financial scenarios to assess opportunities, risks, and success factors.
How it works
3 Steps to Your Workshop
Book your Workshop
Book the workshop individually or in combination. Select suitable dates and your preferred language.
Participate
Join from anywhere. Thanks to small groups, you can ask individual questions and receive personal feedback.
Create Financial Plans
Use the templates and methods as a foundation for your internal planning and investor presentations.
Testimonials
What Clients and Partners Say
In just 3 hours, Arndt taught me more than I learned during an entire semester of finance in business studies.
CEO & Co-Founder, Beneto Foods & Beneto Farm
Arndt's lean analytics and finance workshops have been an invaluable asset to our accelerator program. Arndt's exceptional hands-on training, coupled with his extensive entrepreneurial experience and analytical mindset, has proven to be a tremendous support to the more than 100 founders who have participated in our program.
Project Manager, Berlin Innovation Agency
The financial modeling workshop was amazing! It was not only incredibly insightful but also super practical and actionable.
Project Lead, Fraunhofer AHEAD; Co-Founder, GLAICE healthcare
Arndt shares his outstanding entrepreneurial experience in intensive workshops for early-stage start-ups in the SIBB Digital Transition Incubator. Over the years, the feedback from participants has always been excellent. He regularly gets a 5/5 from all participants and the word 'impressive' is frequently mentioned.
Program Manager & Start-Up Coach, SIBB
Arndt supports our CHEMOVATOR teams not only with introductory interactive workshops, but also with the implementation of individual and custom-fit coaching on the topics of business model, strategy, product, financial planning and financing. In addition, he helps the teams with the focused step-by-step implementation of the business models as well as the successful market entry and subsequent growth. The combination of experienced coach, entrepreneur and investor is particularly authentic and helpful.
Head of Venture Portfolio Management, Chemovator/BASF SE
His valuable insights and engaging presentation style made it one of the best workshops I've ever attended.
CEO & Co-Founder, Palasts
Arndt delivers workshops on metrics-driven business models and financial plans.
Head of Startup Programs, KI Garage
Arndt always manages to transfer knowledge in a very effective way with many examples and concrete exercises.
Program Manager, Applied Data Incubator
Arndt's Financial Planning Deep Dive provided an incredible amount of added value and was the best part of the workshop.
Co-Founder, Eating at Maples
Flexible formats