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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

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Keep up the blogging and web casts and we will keep listening and growing. While the CAC ratio helps SaaS businesses at scale to manage their Sales and Marketing spend, the SLC is a helpful framework for early stage businesses before you have meaningful data. to acquire the client. It is really hard to price in the dark.