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Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

There has been a lot of public debate over the past several weeks about whether it’s a good thing to be “gross margin positive” or not and commentary always reminds me that some people at startups don’t quite understand financial metrics or even how to think about which ones are healthy. And of course ultimately on profitability.

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Conversion, retention and churn benchmarks

VC Cafe

A high retention rate indicates that customers find the product or service valuable and are likely to continue using it in the future. Churn : The percentage of customers who stop using a product or service after a certain period of time, typically measured over weeks, months, or years. The benchmarks are based on the US market.

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The 7 Key Metrics Every Business Owner Should Monitor

Up and Running

If you don’t understand your key financial metrics, you have no way of monitoring your business’s health—and you risk mingling assets, incurring penalties for filing taxes late, overlooking expenses, and running into difficulties paying bills and employees, just to mention a few! Each article will give you: A brief definition of the metric.

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What You Need To Know About The Churn Rate And How To Fight It

YoungUpstarts

There are 3 major metrics that will determine the overall success of a SaaS vendor: Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). Churn Rate. But many first time SaaS merchants overlook churn or don’t even know what churn is. We will explore the ins and outs of churn and tell you how to fight it. What is churn rate?

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How To Succeed As A Product Manager

YoungUpstarts

Product Management Metrics. Despite huge efforts and seemingly good results, it’s important to use real metrics to arrive at a final verdict. Some of the most important are described below: Marketing metrics. This group of metrics covers numbers such as monthly unique visitors to the website and customer acquisition cost.

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SaaS Growth: The “Triple A” Sprint Framework that Gets Results

ConversionXL

With access to countless metrics, it’s easy to obsess over email opens or bounce rates. Although these metrics can be tracked, they don’t tell you much. Did your high bounce rate lead customers to churn ? Although a high bounce rate can absolutely contribute to those problems, we still don’t know the root cause.

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Product Design for SaaS Startups: Best Practices and Examples

ReadWriteStart

MRR is a crucial metric for measuring the growth of a SaaS business. Customer churn rate: Customer churn rate is the percentage of customers who cancel their monthly SaaS subscriptions.

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