The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

According to the World Green Building Council (WGBC), the following findings support a case for green building: Lower operating cost – the construction of green buildings can help building owners and occupiers save money thanks to efficient energy and water usage. The other important social issue is the net tenant health and well-being.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2021

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is a metric to monitor how effectively a business is accomplishing its specific objective. EMPLOYEE NET PROMOTER SCORE . You may be familiar with the net promoter score (NPS). The metric is useful for measuring the chances a customer would recommend your products or service. SALES KPIs.

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.Net Metrics Retention Revenue 92

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

FBe's recommendation was (paraphrasing a 35 min talk): Don't invent new metrics, use online versions of Reach and GRPs to measure success. Compute ROI: (cost of Facebook campaigns + salary of people running campaigns + agency creative costs) vs. profit from incremental product sales. Metrics are a problem.

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Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Content management systems (CMS) like WordPress are used to further streamline the content marketing process. With PPC, impressions cost nothing. Ideally, digital marketers can optimize PPC marketing campaigns so the conversions (sales) from the ad nets more revenue than the cost of the campaign. Old School But Effective.

Technical Review 146

Technical Review PPC SEM Marketing 146

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

Show how production workflow software expands customer reach, streamlines processes and reduce costs, rather than merely introducing the latest technology. Remember the old adage, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” One metric now commonly used is called the Net Promoter® Score (NPS). Detractors.

Customer 213

Customer Product Technical Review Marketing 213

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

How to create a growth hacking strategy using the pirate metrics model. Growth hacking in marketing incorporates the five stages of the customer lifecycle into the “ AARRR Framework ,” otherwise known as the “Pirate Metrics model.”. Don’t cast your net too far and wide. Focus on the channels that offer the best ROI. Activation.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 16, 2015

I review a lot of board decks with a beautifully hand-crafted page with metrics for the company. The reason is that the real value of the board deck is not (ironically) for the board; it’s for management to track their own performance. So I want to see that management is using a dashboard every day, not just for board meetings.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed. Yet in the face of all this change, traditional firms continue to embrace a management ethos that values efficiency over innovation. Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. Innovation.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2020

Hidalgo recommends a focus on engagement stage indicators including customers by channel, conversion ratio, and cost per revenue. You need to track what content is resonating with your prospective customers, through metrics including submit rate by content offer, elasticity, velocity, cost, and ultimately revenue by content program.

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NPV Net Present Value Conversion Ratio Marketing 436

Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

A data-driven approach can help you make accurate and timely business decisions to meet market demands and improve cost-efficiency. 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. KPIs Every Founder Should Track.

Founder 71

Founder Retention Metrics Technical Review 71

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2018

Hidalgo recommends a focus on engagement stage indicators including customers by channel, conversion ratio, and cost per revenue. You need to track what content is resonating with your prospective customers, through metrics including submit rate by content offer, elasticity, velocity, cost, and ultimately revenue by content program.

Demand 144

Demand Metrics NPV Net Present Value 144

ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

The entrepreneurs can reduce their operational costs significantly – by utilizing advanced technologies like autonomous vehicles, drones, and robots for courier delivery. Real-time supply chain management – and live monitoring of inventory and fleet will help entrepreneurs track parcels 24×7.

Technical Review 163

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Demand Social Media 163

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Just take a look at one of the most impressive examples: in 2018, Amazon’s net profit exceeded $10 billion , which is twice as much as in 2017. Decide on what actually you need to have a more detailed vision on how much it will cost you. Well-thought and unique eCommerce business is a bottomless source of profit.

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eCommerce Software Developers Software Development Hosting 113

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Customer Success Managers (CSMs) are problem solvers and connectors. A little bit account management, a little bit support, and a little bit consultant, a CSM is like a best friend inside the company for the customers she serves. All of these metrics tie to lifetime customer value (LCV).

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Customer Retention Software Review Metrics 171

The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Content management systems (CMS) like WordPress are used to further streamline the content marketing process. With PPC, impressions cost nothing. Ideally, digital marketers can optimize PPC marketing campaigns so the conversions (sales) from the ad nets more revenue than the cost of the campaign. Old School But Effective.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review PPC SEM Marketing 78

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. ” If you’re not profitable you’re purely a cost center to them. Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) =. Operating Costs.

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Startup Revenue Technical Review Flash 418

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Team: Who is on your management team? Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Milestones and metrics. For metrics , decide which numbers to check regularly to track your company’s health.

Business Plan 154

Business Plan Technical Review Forecast Software Review 154

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2016

Using some key metrics called Key Performance Indicators, or KPIs, can help to manage and evaluate your company and measure if your service, product, or business provides something to your target market that is new, needed, better, more convenient, or cost-effective. Developing your company’s KPIs. Benefits of using KPIs.

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Metrics Management Miami Revenue 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Happy customers quickly become your biggest advocates, today reaching far beyond friends and family, and they make traditional marketing efforts pale in comparison for growth, loyalty, and new customer acquisition costs. The cost has been far more than offset by both customer loyalty and advocacy, as well as team spirit.

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Customer Metrics Algorithm Community 285

Up and Running

JUNE 9, 2020

Reviewing vendor pricing, eliminating frivolous expenses, and investing in time-saving tools are typical cost-cutting efforts you’re likely revisiting on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. Forecast cash flow and manage that forecast carefully. The use of this for managing cash flow is obvious. Carefully manage inventory.

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Forecast Software Review Campaign Cash Position 114

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Hidalgo recommends a focus on engagement stage indicators including customers by channel, conversion ratio, and cost per revenue. You need to track what content is resonating with your prospective customers, through metrics including submit rate by content offer, elasticity, velocity, cost, and ultimately revenue by content program.

Metrics 120

Metrics NPV Net Present Value Conversion Ratio 120

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The “nice to haves” included retaining at least the current level of sales with the DIY retailers and HVAC services companies, and maintaining at least 10 percent net profits. Chris, who ran manufacturing and logistics, was most concerned about how the company would manage the thousands of individual shipments to consumers.

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Agile Malaysia Technical Review Metrics 113

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Marketing metrics are a competitive advantage. You have to track metrics you can act on. In this article, you’ll learn which metrics to measure to understand and improve marketing performance. Table of contents What are digital marketing metrics? KPIs vs. digital marketing metrics 1. – Seth Godin.

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Metrics Analytics Marketing Acquisition 105

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Figuring out the correct customer relationship management ( CRM ) strategy will not only help your organization retain pre-existing customers, but will also prevent loss of customers in the future. These metrics identify when a customer is about to stop their usage, before they actually do. Types of Churn from DataScience.com.

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Customer Churn Rate Metrics Retention 110

Up and Running

JULY 15, 2015

Others track Net Revenue (less Cost of Goods sold) or work off Net Income (less expenses). Acquisition Cost of a New Customer. It not only helps with measuring ROI, but it is extremely helpful in determining a basic marketing budget (number of new customers in a year times acquisition cost). Cost Per Lead.

Marketing 60

Marketing Social Media Campaign Acquisition 60

Up and Running

DECEMBER 21, 2016

In addition to improving cash levels and earnings, cutting expenses, and reducing debt, companies seeking credit should consider focusing on improving key financial metrics that can best predict default. See Also: The 7 Key Metrics Every Business Owner Should Monitor. Net income to sales. Debt service coverage ratio.

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Metrics .Net Cash Position Finance 60

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

I know the argument: The pay-back period on sales, marketing, and up-start costs is long, but there’s a profitable result at the end of the tunnel. The mindset works like this: It costs a lot of money to land an enterprise customer. Marketing, sales, legal, account management, on-boarding, technical guidance, training.

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Business Model .Net Revenue IPO 335

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Many subscription billing services are integrated with card issuers, so that they can seamlessly manage card changes. And you might be a little generous about getting them to re-up if your variable costs are low. This Net Promoter System question represents an engagement metric that all subscription businesses should track.

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Customer Technical Review Retention Acquisition 173

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

If you like this, go see his Shockwave Innovations blog ) Anyone that has taken an accounting class or learned basic business financials knows the interaction between key elements of a P&L (revenue, cost, expense) and a balance sheet (assets, liabilities, equity). At that point, you’ve recovered the cost to acquire the customer.

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Churn Rate .Net Metrics Hosting 288

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

Getting business websites more visibility is what we do, but I want to focus on building a reporting system that demonstrates our progress in a way that non-tech CEOS and managers can understand. 19- Metric accountability. At SocialChimp, our 2019 goals are surrounded by metric accountability. Simplicity is key. . 3- Four goals.

Entrepreneur 119

Entrepreneur Social Media Vertical SEO 119

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. They measure their success on metrics that reflect success in execution, and they reward execution.

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IRR Startup Business Model Agile 335

Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

Team: Who is on your management team? Financial summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Maintain a positive online reputation for your practice as a key management technique. Be specific. Financial plan.

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Business Plan Technical Review Exit Strategy Oregon 72

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 14, 2014

I hope you will enjoy the read Simple CAC ratio As many companies are finalizing their 2014 financial plan ( feel free to use the Accel template ), I thought it could be a good time to write a short post on the CAC ratio - a simple metric that I defined in a blog post in 2008 (time flies!) 2 year payback) warrants further investments.

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Cost Acquisition Customer .Net 97

Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2022

Managing business risk without a clear financial picture is like going on a road trip without a map and hoping you’ll end up at your planned destination. When the business risk is effectively managed, you can determine a clear path forward according to your financial situation. Contribution margin ratio.

Equity 136

Equity .Net Balance Sheet Operations 136

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

When you’re company is growing >10x year over year, I suppose if management didn’t invest a lot in continued growth their board directors would line them up against the wall. How They Make Money: Groupon keeps a share of the coupon value (typically 40-50%) as its net revenue (1). in net revenue and passes $0.58

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

How did Outreach grow in just a few years to 50,000 monthly active users , $10 million in new bookings, and net revenue retention (NRR) of more than 140%? By focusing intently on a single measurement, known as a north star metric. The north star metric defines success for the whole company and aligns teams on a growth trajectory.

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Metrics Acquisition Revenue .Net 120