Acquisition Metrics PR Valuation 
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 26, 2016
There has been a lot of public debate over the past several weeks about whether it’s a good thing to be “gross margin positive” or not and commentary always reminds me that some people at startups don’t quite understand financial metrics or even how to think about which ones are healthy. Customer acquisition cost.
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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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. Choose one.
Cracking the Code
FEBRUARY 23, 2011
The sales productivity ratio (measured with the Customer Acquisition Cost or CAC ratio) are also fairly similar for the two groups (except for a small cap dip in Q4 09) and therefore do not explain the difference Why is scale so much rewarded by public markets? Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). My Investments.
ConversionXL
AUGUST 11, 2021
A sponsorship strategy should cover five areas: Assets Audience data Asset valuation Activations Market identification. Asset valuation. PR Week does this in a Twitter poll. An inventory of metrics: Click-through rates, newsletter subscribers, downloads, social engagement, revenue figures, etc. What do they dislike?
Cracking the Code
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
While poised with a limited number of transactions this year, the world of public Cloud Computing and SaaS companies has been marked by two events in the past few months: the acquisition of Omniture by Adobe and the high profile IPO of LogMeIn, a leading provider of PC remote access and support with a very interesting freemium model.
Cracking the Code
MARCH 12, 2010
The SaaS growth recovery does not seem to take a "V" shape 2) Sales productivity is ramping up: bottom was hit in the first half of 2009 However, the sales and productivity of the group, measured by the median "Customer Acquisition Cost ratio" or "CAC ratio", seems to be recovering more steeply. SaaS 13 Index Valuation. My Investments.
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