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Advice on How to Make Your First Analytics Hire “Analytics is about designing, reporting, and leveraging operating metrics to aid strategic and functional decision-making. Two Hires Startups Wait Too Long To Make “The first hire is a really good business generalist that is focused on analytics, finance, and ops.

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What Is Venture Debt and How Should Startups Use It?

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In many instances, you raise an institutional round to either fulfill a product strategy or go-to-market strategy or you’re increasing sales and marketing hires, so you have better visibility into what needs to happen in the next six, 12, 18 months. Reason being, there’s more of a defined strategy for the company.

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Slack S-1: Will ARPU Drive Long Term Value?

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Here’s the layer cake: Growth and analytics types who work with cohort analyses will be very familiar with these, but for those who aren’t this chart basically shows how much recurring revenue Slack gets from customers who became paid subscribers in a given year.

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The Future of Food: From Sustenance to Experience

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Analytics, payments, and point-of-sale features give restaurants owners core functionality to running their business efficiently. Our investment in Upserve , a restaurant management platform, empowers these businesses with a suite of services to run a smoother operation and exceed guest expectations.