Jevgenij Blagonravov

Dear founders, I am curious, at what point did your financial model stop helping and start becoming something you just maintained for investors?

Hey Product Hunt 👋 I’m Jevgenij, a product person with almost two decades of experience across tech consultancies and startups I’ve built and scaled myself. Binokl grew out of a very familiar founder pain: trying to answer basic questions about runway, hiring, and funding using fragile, hard-to-maintain spreadsheets. Quick note on launch status, for full transparency: Binokl is fully built and...

Picking up on why Binokl exists in the first place. This idea is personal. Every time I built or advised a startup, the same questions came up in conversations with VCs and accelerators: – Can I bootstrap this, and for how long? – If I raise, how much do I actually need to survive 12 months? – Will this business make money in that time? Most founders are great at turning ideas into products,...