Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The spread between your LTV and blended CPA determines either your profitability or your rate of growth, and a high valuation depends on balancing these two factors. To the extent that you have good word-of-mouth, activation or retention, these factors tend to drive down your CPA or drive up your LTV, and so are nice bonuses.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. I’m pleased to now turn to Kayak’s S-1 filing.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Luckily, we also discovered that certain other metrics, like LTV and CPA were much better than we initially projected. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A business that strives for something like this should absolutely be charging money from day one, in order to establish baselines for their two key metrics: CPA (the cost to acquire a new customer) and LTV (the lifetime value of each acquired customer). This is the simplest ecosystem and simplest driver of growth. Amazon PostRank

Customer 156

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Jack brings 30 plus years of field proven experience from a starting base with CPA firm Arthur Andersen to the CEO level of several national companies. Jack is a proven CEO/Entrepreneur, having built 6 companies into national firms, two of which he has subsequently sold to the Wall Street firms of Solomon Brothers and First Boston.

Customer 79

Customer CPA Boston California 79

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

This package design won a local Boston area award, and I was excited about that, as well as the fact of adding value to my work as an asset to this company. This is not a comment on health professionals or on CPA practitioners. But their work is not personal to them, not most of the time, anyway.

Rhode Island 65

Rhode Island Design Costa Rica Architecture 65