Both Sides of the Table
MAY 9, 2018
After my board meeting I had to do an interview with a CFO candidate that one of my portfolio companies asked me to speak with. especially about churn rates and your high CACs last quarter relative to the previous year. But it’s only Tuesday. Wednesday I have 4 companies coming in to talk about their companies. Was that a blip?
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .
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crowdSPRING Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2013
6 Ideas to Reduce Your Product’s Churn Rate We Found to Work - crowdspring.co/1grCDHI. 6 Ideas to Reduce Your Product’s Churn Rate We Found to Work - crowdspring.co/1grCDHI. Design Tips for Building an Exquisite Portfolio - crowdspring.co/1gqnM0o. After Twitter and Square, What is Jack Dorsey’s Next Move?
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 21, 2020
We discussed why in Q4 you will see large renegotiations of SaaS contracts and increased churn rates. Biggest Advice I Give to Portfolio Founders? But when a fund writes checks into a portfolio company it typically “reserves” money to invest in future rounds. This is not a 2-month v-shaped correction.
SVPG
AUGUST 10, 2014
The origin of this question comes from the days when companies had a portfolio of products where each product represented one or more SKU’s. It may include profitability, but it more likely will focus on increasing growth, or reducing churn rate, or driving up engagement, or driving revenue, or any number of other possible goals.
ReadWriteStart
AUGUST 26, 2022
What guidance for your portfolio companies? I think every company’s portfolio is different, so they’re all different sizes, different stages, different geographies, different cash positions, and different market leadership positions. . I will say the one thing we tell all our portfolio companies is to get fit and lean in.
Seeing Both Sides
OCTOBER 24, 2015
One portfolio company executive confessed to me last week that he knows he is doing it wrong but he just didn't have the time to research the best way to do the LTV calculation. One important component to an LTV calculation is the churn rate or cancellation rate. A monthly churn rate of 1%?
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