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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

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Product Design for SaaS Startups: Best Practices and Examples

ReadWriteStart

Use data analytics: Data analytics can provide valuable insights into how users interact with your product. Use load balancing: Load balancing is a technique for distributing traffic across multiple servers. Customer churn rate: Customer churn rate is the percentage of customers who cancel their monthly SaaS subscriptions.

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Lean Analytics

Startup Lessons Learned

Lean Analytics is the latest addition to the Lean Series. Here's what they have to say about churn rates in SaaS businesses: The best SaaS sites or applications usually have churn ranging from 1.5% That made it hard to move into online music distribution, leaving the opportunity open for online retailers.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

Everything they do is scrutinized by its potential impact on scalable growth… An effective growth hacker also needs to be disciplined to follow a growth hacking process of prioritizing ideas (their own and others in the company), testing the ideas, and being analytical enough to know which tested growth drivers to keep and which ones to cut.

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Critical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Founders

Up and Running

Use current analytics to identify which business processes should be measured and who the stakeholders are. Customer churn rate: shows the percentage of customers lost in a given period (e.g., For example, you may need to reassess the vertical distribution of your sales team to focus on industries with higher returns.

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How to Get Initial Traction with a Marketing Budget of Zero

Up and Running

Create content that your target users will want to read and share, and distribute it among the audience that you have. Make use of Google Analytics, social media analytics, and any other tool that is useful to your company, and become more efficient. Providing proper expectations will minimize the churn rate.

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My Thoughts on the Current Market: on 20-Minute VC

Both Sides of the Table

We discussed why in Q4 you will see large renegotiations of SaaS contracts and increased churn rates. Food production and distribution, group collaboration, remote training or education, sensor technology (tracking people movement, temperatures, etc), certain biotech deals. Knowing the limitations of the founding team.

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