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Conversion, retention and churn benchmarks

VC Cafe

Year over year conversion trends according to Hubspot ( source ) Unlike 2021, when money was cheap and plentiful, the mantra for startups is no longer blitzscaling and growth at all costs. Good and great net revenue retention ( source ) Another factor to consider when it comes to achieving these metrics is the cost of acquisition, or CAC.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. Sources like Crunchbase , Angel List , and Seed Invest even give this data away for free or very low cost. Stanford List of Venture Capital and Private Equity Sources.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

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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The Courage to Monetize

Austin Startup

If you deliver exactly the same results at the same net cost to the customer via a SaaS product, you may get a tech multiple 10X higher. Heck, there was no venture capital in Dixie in that era. Price is no longer cost + markup = customer price. What is your Customer Acquisition Cost?

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Boardroom Dilemmas

VC Cafe

That typically means the opposite of a ‘growth mindset’: Cut costs / reduce burn/ extend runway as much as possible, ideally until the end of 2023 at least. For example, take into account these ‘scorecards’ for series B startups in both consumer (B2C) and Enterprise Saas (B2B). Improve sales efficiency (i.e.

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Is the Lean Startup concept of MVP dead?

VC Cafe

“After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent. If you can afford to make an MVP look and feel great, even at the expense of time to market or cost, why compromise? Capital resources alone don’t do the trick. Most of the funds that started in the late part of the boom would be underwater).

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Founder Interview: Richard Lavina Innovating Accounting Services with Taxfyle

The Startup Magazine

We’re aiming to bring that boost in productivity and cost-efficiency both to CPA firms and other professional services firms in other verticals (i.e. Richard: Taxfyle is successfully addressing deep pain points experienced every year by both American taxpayers and accounting firms nationally, and overseas, around tax season.

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