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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers.

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The Most Effective Early-Stage Growth Strategies for Emerging Businesses

ReadWriteStart

Growing a business is always challenging, but it’s often the hardest in the earliest stages of development. First, we need to address the core challenges of developing effective early-stage growth strategies for new businesses. Limited brand equity. What are the best tactics to accomplish these goals? Limited capital.

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Social Media Analytics: Twitter: Quantitative & Qualitative Metrics

Occam's Razor

Anyone and their brother and ma-in-law can develop a tool, and they have! To all of you developers who are toiling out there, you have my love and gratitude. In this post four twitter analysis tools that while not yet fully developed show sweet signs of: 1. Be willing to put in the sweat equity. Be willing to work hard.

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Is Your Startup Tracking the Right Metrics?

Up and Running

Lifetime value will also get there and you increase your lifetime value by decreasing your churn rate, i.e. the rate at which people churn out of your product or service, but decreasing your churn will take months to catch up and show the bottom line and your absolutely want to decrease your churn.

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

4- Reduce churn rate by half. My big hairy audacious goal for my business by the end of this year is to reduce our churn rate by half. From entry-level employees to managers to entrepreneurs, the only way to create long-term sustainability is to develop people who will continue to lead.

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Shark Tank Season 4 week 10 breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

With a 15% churn rate, that suggests about $7 in lifetime value. He developed the product out of necessity. But I think that given the demand, he could have held firm on valuation and either given up slightly less equity or taken in slightly more money for the same dilution. Adding these up gives $15/mth.

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How to Write a Business Plan

Up and Running

Whether you’re trying to raise money for your business or are developing a plan for strategic growth, a solid business plan is a key component to every successful business. You can use this simple formula to develop a positioning statement: For [target market description] who [target market need], [this product] [how it meets the need].