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).

Churn Rate 288

Churn Rate .Net Metrics Hosting 288

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2021

Limited brand equity. Most of the strategies on this list prioritize customer acquisition, and rightly so. Customer acquisition is, as intuition tells you, the most effective way to grow your company. In some situations, that renders the marketing budget exhausted from the start. Because people already know it.

Early Stage 125

Early Stage PPC Retention Churn Rate 125

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Investors want to hear about your first customers, other investments put into the company (including your own sweat equity), key media placement, signed letters of intent (LOI) to purchase/partner, product and customer milestones , key hires, and so on. percent average conversion rate. 5 percent monthly churn rate.

Sweat Equity 122

Sweat Equity Churn Rate Elevator Pitch Forecast 122

Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

The company launched six months ago and so far has grown to 110 subscribers, with all customer acquisition coming from PR and referrals. They are seeing an 85% monthly renewal rate. All e-commerce businesses should be examined through the lens of customer acquisition cost and lifetime value. The others all passed as well.

Pre-Money Valuation 166

Pre-Money Valuation Alabama Valuation Churn Rate 166

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

High churn rates. High return rates. revenues per user > cost of acquisition + cost of delivery). High referral rates. This morning I thought I would say more about what that means, starting with characteristics of unsustainable growth: Adding users who are unlikely to engage (e.g. High net promoter score.

Churn Rate 91

Churn Rate .Net Acquisition Channel 91

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

You can work out how long it will take to pay back varying customer acquisition costs (CAC). You can also use it for with subscription businesses (including SaaS) but in these situations calculations based on churn rate might be simpler and more effective.

Churn Rate 60

Churn Rate eCommerce .Net Acquisition 60

Up and Running

JANUARY 24, 2014

Investors want to hear about your first customers, other investments put into the company (including your own sweat equity), key media placement, signed letters of intent (LOI) to purchase/partner, product and customer milestones, key hires, etc. 0.22% average conversion rate. 5% monthly churn rate.

Sweat Equity 138

Sweat Equity Churn Rate Forecast Business Model 138