Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

Lean Analytics is the latest addition to the Lean Series. If you're working on the Sticky Engine of Growth , you're focused on very different metrics from those that you care about in the Viral Engine of Growth. Finding your One Metric That Matters But it's not enough just to know "normal". to 3% a month.

Analytics 167

Analytics Lean Metrics Churn Rate 167

ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2018

Eighteen months later, I’m keynoting at conferences and serving clients in London, Sydney, Singapore, Los Angeles, Lisbon, Vancouver, and 50 other cities,” says Logan Young, the co-founder of BlitzMetrics, a Facebook dashboard and advertising company. Young and Yu realized quickly that a high churn rate plagues the digital marketing space. “A

Technical Review 115

Technical Review Technology Louisville Los Angeles 115

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

A few months ago, we wrote about the data we focus on to evaluate marketplaces and later shared a marketplace KPI dashboard that we created to guide founders on the important metrics they should track. There are lots of great blog posts and articles out there that talk about social platform metrics. Also, good news!

Metrics 60

Metrics Churn Rate Due Diligence Social Network 60

ConversionXL

AUGUST 13, 2019

SaaS sales and marketing teams can get overwhelmed by metrics. But without any metrics, it’s impossible to track growth. If growth is the best way to get out alive, marketing metrics do little unless they correlate with sales. According to Gartner , three metrics form the foundation for those growth levers: (Image source).

Metrics 117

Metrics SQL Retention Churn Rate 117

ReadWriteStart

MAY 14, 2012

The best way for startup founders to improve their chance of success is by learning to make better decisions. This is a big-data approach to startup success,” says Startup Compass co-founder and serial entrepreneur Bjoern Lasse Herrmann. But startups don’t have any access to that kind of analytics. Don’t ignore customers.

Churn Rate 133

Churn Rate Cofounder Startup Acquisition 133

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

We’ve had just one market since then and it could confuse one into thinking: every deal finds downstream investors, every company good or bad finds a home, you know anything at all about brazil, india, china or even saas sales, ecommerce or analytics (you know all these in a bull market). It forces innovation. Some will get out.

Churn Rate 150

Churn Rate Silicon Valley Brazil Valuation 150

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. I wanted to make sure we got it out there, the idea of how does one find a good co-founder? Then referral rates and opt-out rates.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60