www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

Especially during challenging times, retention is significantly more crucial than acquisition. Although our in-person services were put on hold, our eCommerce products, including virtual services tripled in revenue. We had to make the difficult decision to cut down on staff and this allowed us to hire workers at lower rates.

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Entrepreneur Metrics Technical Review North America 120

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Between January 2015 and January 2016, we grew our platform Slidebean from $1K to $20K in monthly recurring revenue. Getting the first tracks of revenue is one of the toughest processes of building a startup. This is when metrics come into play. 1x hacker in charge of product/development. Dec-15: Developer (product team).

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

15:59] What’s the first strategic sort of leadership hire that you think an agency needs? [17:07] 17:07] I’m seeing more and more agencies talk about growth through acquisition – is that a good way to grow? You can spend on as a risk without putting you outside of the metric. I'm gonna go hire 'em now they know.

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CPA Technical Review Revenue Forecast 73

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Instead, watch payback period for acquisition efficiency, watch retention for product/market fit, watch expansion revenue for long-term growth, and watch gross margin for long-term profitability. There isn’t one most important SaaS metric. A reliable paid acquisition channel results in a somewhat stable business.

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Restful Founder Revenue Acquisition 202

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

by Robbie Kellman Baxter, author of “ The Membership Economy: Find Your Super Users, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue “ Everyone knows that retention is crucial for subscription-based companies. Blue Apron is hardly alone with its churn problem. Maybe he just wanted to binge watch his favorite show.).

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Customer Technical Review Retention Acquisition 173

View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

Alberto Savoia: Pretotyping consists of a set of techniques and metrics to help you make sure that you are building “The Right It” before you build “It” right — where “It” represents your new product, service, company, etc. The right metrics are key to identifying The Right It. What happened?

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Product Technical Review Marketing Lean 120

ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Say your objective is to increase sales revenue from your existing customer base, and your key result is to generate an additional $500k from these customers by the end of Q2. Your hypothesis might be that if you remove the promo code field at the checkout, cart abandonment will go down, and revenue from existing customers will increase.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

This is final installment of a 3-part series covering my acquisition of HitTail. Could you talk a bit about the diligence you did during the acquisition? Due diligence is the most important part of the process because it dictates whether you should move forward with the acquisition, and at what price. Photo by psiaki.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Addressing real world problems, they thrive in uncertainty, generating new jobs and new revenue streams in new markets. experiments to build a product, find customers, test business models and hire amazing people. Agenda items will focus on key metrics illustrating value creation, particularly in software as a service companies.

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Technical Review Software Review New Zealand Due Diligence 88

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). and tell you what are the best key performance indicators (metrics) for them. In the past I’ve shared a cluster of metrics that small, medium and large businesses can use as a springboard…. Every ecommerce site has to obsess about Revenue.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams. Good metrics should also be actionable, and drive successful behavior. In a follow up post, I will use this technique to walk through the design of a set of metrics for a SaaS company.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Our revenues have increased every quarter for the past two years. Knewton's Online Marketing Director is the key partner to the VP, Online Marketing and is responsible for helping the team drive customer acquisition and revenue growth through SEM (paid search), SEO, Affiliate Marketing, and Email.

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San Francisco CTO Hire Developer EC2 92

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 6, 2018

In other words, you should demonstrate that revenue and/or engagement are repeatable and achievable in a cost-effective manner, and not just a function of pent-up demand from a small segment of underserved customers that will dry up in the near future. . Hiring after an A round.

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Acquisition Distribution Metrics Retention 150

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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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Since then it has become much harder to find people and while we are talking about hiring relatively small numbers of people, the typical sources of candidates dont seem to be working. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. And there’s this other thing called “gross margin,” which shows the quality of your revenue. How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make?

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Paywalls, by default, are a barrier to organic acquisition—they stop some users from accessing some content. At the same time, organic traffic, for many news sites, isn’t the primary acquisition source, in part because most news-related queries are new and never searched before. Metering vs. lead-in. Metering. “As

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

Good CEOs will look inside and say: “Hey, maybe we’ve been hiring a little bit too much during the sugar rush phase of the pandemic, and what does that mean for performance management? Can we squeeze out more from folks that we’ve hired, and are there things that maybe we have completely neglected? Have we become soft?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. 19- Metric accountability. At SocialChimp, our 2019 goals are surrounded by metric accountability. 1- Recruit female executives recruitment.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

It’s easy to get lost down the rabbit hole of metrics for your business. When it comes to getting the most out of your website performance, only certain metrics are what you can consider key performance indicators. For websites, this can include “sales volume,” “number of visits,” “average cart value,” and a variety of other metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2018

Allocate funds for intrapreneurship and acquisitions. If your business hires only to fill existing openings, it is falling behind, and ripe for competitive crisis. Set metrics and rewards specifically for innovation. Metrics can be used to change ingrained behavior, as well as build revenue.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

I got one of those in 2018, mere months after I started at data.world as their first growth marketing and demand generation hire. To do that, we built a demand funnel that took us from nothing to 44X revenue growth in a single year. My initial role was to grow the user base for our free, open-data catalog. Image source ).

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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!) This is a rough approximation. the lack of!

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Examples would be “an acquisition” or “a financing” or “an IPO.” ” Let’s take “acquisition” as an example. Maybe you’ve made some acquisitions in the past. Then, I like to roll into metrics that create a floor on how the business will operate.

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Acquisition IPO Metrics Finance 145

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

B2C sales and customer acquisition efforts are a different matter (and one I''ll perhaps address in a future blog), but for B2B, those three models are the most common pattern. If you want to scale sales, you hire more sales reps. customer acquisition cost or CAC). I''ll discuss each one below. 1) Enterprise Sales.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 23, 2021

If they’re the kind of infinite learner who uses their past experiences to make their decision-making better, they have a huge advantage when it comes to everything from hiring to strategy to sales, making them an even better bet the second time around. The metrics from the dashboard are the key inputs for collective decisions.

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Venture Capital Metrics Investment Bankers Framework 46

OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

The book is part of the Startup Revolution series that Brad has been working on for a couple years now, including Do More (Even) Faster , Venture Deals , Startup Communities , and Startup Life (with two more to come, Startup Boards and Startup Metrics). Writing a book is a LOT harder than I expected!

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. Retention, along with many of our usage metrics, have improved as a result of some of these changes. million in 2004 to $6.5 The result?

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Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

ConversionXL

MAY 19, 2020

If driving revenue or new customer sign-ups is top priority, focus on building content that bolsters the Purchase stage of the funnel, such as: Testimonials ; Customer recommendations; Demos. Map these metrics to the appropriate funnel stages, as well as the content types most commonly used to support them. Show your work.

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Differentiation Sales Email Metrics 129

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded). That’s because tough times make for hesitant buyers.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. Retention, along with many of our usage metrics, have improved as a result of some of these changes. million in 2004 to $6.5 The result?

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Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. Retention, along with many of our usage metrics, have improved as a result of some of these changes. million in 2004 to $6.5 The result?

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Knowing precise metrics about your business is prudent business management. According to an article published by Forbes, metrics that play a critical role in any startup management includes revenue run rate, average revenue per user, customer acquisition rate, churn rate, and operation efficiency.

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Operations Management Churn Rate Startup 100

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. Retention, along with many of our usage metrics, have improved as a result of some of these changes. million in 2004 to $6.5 The result?

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98