Circular Sprints 02: Financial Strategy for Circular Growth
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Find the financial levers that create breathing room
Small changes can have a meaningful impact on your financial position. A stronger margin on one product, a sharper pricing decision or a better grip on costs can create room elsewhere in the business.
This sprint helps you identify where that room can be found. You’ll examine your margins, actuals and forecast, uncover weak spots in your financial model and explore which targeted adjustments could make the biggest difference.
By the end, you should have a clearer answer to one practical question: which small changes can create more financial breathing room in your business?
Applications close on November 1, 23:59.
SPRINT AT A GLANCE
NOVEMBER
3 SESSIONS
CRCL PARK
DUTCH
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Is this sprint for you?
Financial grip: Do you have the numbers, but not yet the overview you need to steer? Your bookkeeping and reporting are in place, but it is still difficult to see where small changes could improve your financial position.
Margins and weak spots: Are you working hard without seeing enough of it come back on the bottom line? You want to understand which products, services or customers strengthen your margin, where value is leaking away, and what you can realistically adjust.
Forecasting and choices: Do you know what different decisions will do to your financial position? You want to connect your actuals to a realistic forecast and see how choices around pricing, hiring, investment or growth affect margin, cash flow and your room to manoeuvre.
Do you recognize this?
- You’re working hard, but your products or services are not delivering the margins you expect.
- Your financial foundation is solid, but you want to know which small adjustments could create more financial breathing room.
- You understand the basics of finance, but want a clearer view of how different choices affect margin, cash flow and your room to invest.
- Your numbers are spread across different reports or systems, making it difficult to see the full picture and decide where to act first.
What you’ll work on
MASTERCLASS 01
Understanding what drives your margin
Where are you actually making money? Start with the financial foundations of your organisation: what information do you need, who owns it and how reliable is the data you use to make decisions?
From there, you’ll dissect the gross margin of your products and services. Look at how it has developed, what is driving changes and where costs, pricing or operational choices are affecting the result. Connect this to customer economics, including the cost of acquiring and retaining customers, to get a more realistic picture of where value is created.
MASTERCLASS 02
Put your financial model to the test
What happens to your business when your assumptions change? Bring your P&L, cash flow and balance sheet together into one coherent view of the business. Connect historical results to your forecast and identify the KPIs that actually help you steer.
Use your model to test real decisions. What happens if you hire? Increase prices? Invest in capacity? Grow faster or slower than expected? Which products or customers deserve more focus, and where could relatively small changes create meaningful financial room?
CORE FOCUS
Day 1 | November 17
Understanding what drives your margin
Get the financial foundations right and take a closer look at your gross margin, cost structure and customer economics. Use the Work on Your Business session to apply the analysis directly to your own company.
Day 2 | December 1
Put your financial model to the test
Connect your P&L, cash flow and balance sheet, turn actuals into a realistic forecast and use scenarios to understand the financial consequences of your next strategic moves.
Work on Your Business Day | T.B.D.
Turn insight into action
Return to your model after putting the first changes into practice. Work through remaining questions, sharpen your priorities and translate the sprint into a focused 100-day financial action plan.
What will you walk away with?
- Clear Vision on Growth Potential: Spot exact uncaptured capital and strategic opportunities in your business.
- Optimized Financial Model: A battle-tested, realistic financial model ready for future scaling.
- Concrete 100-Day Action Plan: A step-by-step roadmap to implement your insights right away.
- Long-Term Financial Peace of Mind: Lay the groundwork to achieve structural peace, clarity, and agility over the next two years.
- Up-to-Date Documentation: Your financial reporting and models fully updated, refined, and IT-proof.
Sprint timeline
Before the sprint
Submit your financial documents and complete a short preparation assignment.
Masterclass 01 | 17 November | 13:00–17:00
Dive into your financial foundations, cost structure and margins.
Between sessions
Apply the first insights to your own financial model.
Masterclass 02 | 1 December | 09:30–17:00
Put your financial model to the test in the morning, then work directly on your own numbers and scenarios in the afternoon.
Work on your Business + Followup | Date TBC | 10:00–13:00
Bring your remaining questions, refine your model and sharpen your next actions.
Become part of a global ecosystem
Your journey doesn’t end when the sprint does.
Participants gain access to:
- Impact Hub’s global community of more than 320,000 members
- A network of impact investors and funders
- Strategic partners and potential customers
- A carefully curated community of like-minded entrepreneurs
- Our Ecosystem Gathering, where we bring together partners from across our ecosystem
Make the numbers work for your next stage of circular growth
Ready to enter new markets, strengthen your sales pipeline and turn your commercial ambitions into action? Join our Unlocking New Markets and Sales sprint.
Participation is free. All we ask is that you commit to attending all three sessions and actively contribute alongside your fellow entrepreneurs.
Applications close on November 1, 23:59.
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