Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

If you don’t understand your key financial metrics, you have no way of monitoring your business’s health—and you risk mingling assets, incurring penalties for filing taxes late, overlooking expenses, and running into difficulties paying bills and employees, just to mention a few! Each article will give you: A brief definition of the metric.

Metrics 60

Metrics Burn Rate .Net Churn Rate 60

VC Cafe

JUNE 6, 2024

It’s not a surprise, given that entrepreneurs are obsessed with data and metrics, but in the conservative VC market of 2024, it feels even more important for founders to know what ‘good’ looks like and what investors expect. Metric Unremarkable Good Excellent Outlier ARR <$500k $500k-$1.5m $1.5m-$2.5m >$2.5m

B2B 78

B2B Burn Rate Generative AI Retention 78

The Startup Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

Their net revenue retention (NRR) soared to 150%, a testament to their product’s value to existing customers. During the ZIRP era, vanity metrics like customer acquisition cost (CAC) to lifetime value (LTV) ratio and monthly active users (MAU) dominated investment decisions.

Burn Rate 88

Burn Rate Bankruptcy Startup Metrics 88

Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

Here are a few thoughts about operating in uncertainty in a pandemic. The questions every startup or small business CEO needs to ask now are: What’s my Burn Rate and Runway? Burn Rate and Runway. To answer the first question, take stock of your current gross burn rate i.e. how much cash are you spending each month.

Burn Rate 436

Burn Rate Startup Valuation Sales Cycle 436

David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Instead of budget approvals, monitor key metrics and give managers more flexibility. Sean Colrock, Director of Client Partnerships at Wiss & Company , suggests at a minimum you track: cash on hand; fume date; and burn rate. Traditional budgets can be destructive and a huge waste of time.

Agile 60

Agile Management Forecast Silicon Valley 60

Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

You need to use your time and resources productively by focusing on the right metrics so you can use data to help you implement improvements that matter. The first step is to formulate a KPI strategy by selecting the right metrics to track. The metrics should help you identify areas for improvement.

Founder 71

Founder Retention Metrics Technical Review 71

David Cohen

MARCH 1, 2017

As an investor, I’m often asked what sort of burn rate is appropriate for a growing company. For SaaS companies in this situation, my rule of thumb for burn guidance is to have a one year ratio of net burn to net new MRR. Your $30K of net new MRR pays back this months burn over the next year.

.Net 94

.Net Burn Rate Cloud Metrics 94