VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This is a question startup founders ask themselves multiple times a week. It’s not just the competition against the incumbents and the large tech platforms that founders has to worry about, but most importantly is the company’s performance and product market fit. Retention over 50% is considered top quartile.

Retention 109

Retention Conversion Churn Rate B2C 109

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

At NextView we invest across the spectrum of seed stage companies so roughly 1/3rd of the companies we invest in are pre-product, roughly 1/3rd are post-product but pre-revenue, and perhaps 1/3rd have some very early revenue. You’re obviously not showing charts of user growth, number of customers, or revenue.

Seed Stage 149

Seed Stage B2B Seed Capital Revenue 149

VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

According to Statista, revenue generated from apps (paid downloads and in-app advertising) will reach $935 billion by 2023, and that doesn’t doesn’t include the many trillions of dollars transacted via apps in the last decade alone (think Amazon, Uber, games, etc). Worldwide mobile app revenues in 2014 to 2023 (in billion U.S.

Mobile 190

Mobile Social Media Distribution PR 190

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

In this post I’ll focus on benchmarking resources for seed and series A in the following three categories: SaaS B2C / Consumer apps Deep tech. In SaaS the main benchmarks being measured are revenue growth, sales efficiency (unit economics), churn and burn rate. Example of Baremetrics revenue per user benchmarks.

B2C 141

B2C Technical Review Startup Retention 141

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The past year was a wild ride for startups and founders, giving a whole new meaning to the ”rollercoaster” aspect of being an entrepreneur. Patrick Collison , self-made billionaire founder of Stripe. Bill Gates , founder of Microsoft. Choosing a co-founder, and hiring the early employees is key to building a successful company.

Founder 187

Founder Startup Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 187

Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

What should an early-stage startup founder focus on if they want to implement PLG? What should the founder avoid if they want to implement PLG? But for early stage founders, I think there are two particular scenarios where PLG can be really helpful. What do you feel like early stage startup founders should focus on first?

Product 78

Product CTO Hire Startup Fractional CTO 78

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2022

The CEO shared the revenue target for the year at X, and the revenue target for next year at 3X. The discussion that ensued was insightful and I thought it would be worth sharing it here for founders who are dealing with a similar issue. One of the board members asked a simple question: “Why is revenue our North Star KPI?

Metrics 179

Metrics Revenue B2C Portfolio 179