Runway math still beats a valuation screenshot

A marked-up cap table looks like progress in a group chat. It is not a plan for the next eighteen months of payroll, tools, and rent.

If you cannot say how many months you have after the next hire, you do not have a valuation problem. You have an arithmetic problem.

Publish the runway internally every month. Hide the screenshot. The first number keeps the company honest. The second one keeps the feed loud.