Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

We have a very high churn rate, but as soon as we turn on email marketing to our user base, people will come back” – Yes, of course. Back at the tail end of the Great Internet Bubble in 2001, as all the big technology companies began missing their quarters by giant amounts, I found myself wondering how none of them saw it coming.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

These days, the internet rules marketing—and SEO is king. Providing proper expectations will minimize the churn rate. If you have highly regarded and established companies using your product, let everybody know about it. It creates trust and reduces skepticism that a lesser-known company may foster in potential new users.

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Marketing Social Media Churn Rate Elevator Pitch 60

Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2017

One month later, they read another piece of content from your blog that they found browsing the internet. For SaaS businesses, this is calculated quite easily using the monthly churn percentage (LTV = ARPU-Average Revenue per User/Average Monthly Churn Rate). They read the content and leave.

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SVPG

AUGUST 10, 2014

More often, we have multiple product managers and their product teams working on different components of a larger shared service (think SaaS companies or major consumer internet services) or apps or devices. Of course, in the technology world, it is rarely this model.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . A major angel group uses Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. Other VCs use Contently * or Social Native * to create relevant content.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Season 4 of week 10 of Shark Tank was interesting because two of the pitches were for internet businesses that I could imagine seeing in my day job as a Silicon Valley Venture Capitalis t. With a 15% churn rate, that suggests about $7 in lifetime value. I cover one of them, for Nearly Newlyweds, over at Entrepreneur.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

Here's what they have to say about churn rates in SaaS businesses: The best SaaS sites or applications usually have churn ranging from 1.5% Mark MacLeod, Chief Corporate Development Officer at Freshbooks, says that you need to get below a 5% monthly churn rate before you know you’ve got a business that’s ready to scale.

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Analytics Lean Metrics Churn Rate 167

Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2012

These students are typically attracted to Internet and technology start-ups, given that these share favourable industry characteristics such as significant addressable markets, low barriers to entry, modest initial capital requirements and relatively low costs of customer acquisition. If they build it, they will come. But they don’t.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

But notice what’s not listed: messages sent per person, churn rates of active users, or activation rate of new user. But notice what’s not listed: messages sent per person, churn rates of active users, or activation rate of new user. It’s side-by-side with a number of other vanity metrics.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. You sell a product that requires an internet connection and a web browser for access, which means your prospects are online! internet. (6). Cracking The Code. Friday, October 10, 2008. CornerstoneOnDemand.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. The churn rate increased, and then the stock plummeted by 70 percent. The theme of this episode is how to scale unicorns. Joining us for this episode is our partner David Zhang, Partner at TCV (( Technology Crossover Ventures ). Jonathan Siddharth .

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

It was the last day of the third quarter of the year and we hard more deals we needed to close to finish the quarter strong and report numbers to Wall Street that justified our high-flying profile as a recently public Internet commerce software company. Your forecasting process is much more accurate.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 15, 2016

Inbound.org is self-described as “the internet’s smartest marketing community” Everything Inbound marketing is discussed there. Churn rate is proportional to the distance between sign-up and value. via Inbound.org). Inbound.org.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed. What is the first step in creating an internet-based business (After planning) ? Where do you think the internet is taking us for the future? How can I lower my apps churn rate? The way I do it. Thank again!

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

That’s going to help you put your financials together, and it’s also going to help because everybody loses customers, so in your model you have to be able to say what the retention rate is of that customer as well, and the churn rate. Then referral rates and opt-out rates. How many people are going to leave?

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