How do we get to a break even of ca. 15 years?

First of all, you need to review terminology and be more careful on how you present things. What you have there as Profit is something else: it is the cummulative cash flow from year 1 to 5 (-32k). However, there is a mistake there, as you only start selling during year 6. So you are wrongly anticipating all the revenues by one year!

Then I don't know how you get to 13 years. If you have 5 years + 7 years, that's 12 years. 

This is the cash flow per year. Each bullet number is the year and between parenthesis the accumulated cash flow

1. -13,5k -13,2k (-26,7k)
2. -13,2k (-39,9k)
3. -13,2k (-53,1k)
4. -13,2k (-66,3k)
5. -13,2k (-79,5k)
6. -13,2k +30k +18k (-44,7k)
7. -13,2k +18k (-39,9k)
8. -13,2k +18k (-35,1k)
9. -13,2k +18k (-30,3k)
10. -13,2k +18k (-25,5k)
11. -13,2k +18k (-20,7k)
12. -13,2k +18k (-15,9k)
13. -13,2k +18k (-11,1k)
14. -13,2k +18k (-6,3k)
15. -13,2k +18k (-1,5k)
16. -13,2k +18k (3,3k) → Break Even.

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Hi there,

Pedro beat me to the answer! But I just want to add how important breakeven is. Make sure you truly understand how Breakeven works, including all of the various applications (solve for # of years, VC, FC, investment, # of units, price, etc)

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