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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

Both Sides of the Table

VCs (and LPs) have a vested interest in having more data, whether they want to invest in your company / firm or not. against a broad range of similar companies.

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Getting Your Series A Mojo Back

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My internal compass says that “country-club” entrepreneurs struggle to make as big of an impact because it’s really hard to totally change a system that you’re part of and have a vested interest in. Your churn rates are too high. So positive chips are a great signal for me. But building a successful startup is hard.

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Getting Back Your Series A Mojo

Both Sides of the Table

My internal compass says that “country-club” entrepreneurs struggle to make as big of an impact because it’s really hard to totally change a system that you’re part of and have a vested interest in. Your churn rates are too high. Take Maker Studios. Except that building a successful startup is hard.

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Affiliate Marketing for Startups: How to boost revenues leveraging B2B Affiliate Programs

Transformify

Initially, lots of potential clients may be interested to try out the product because it’s new and the flow of new users may mask the high churn rate. Even more, some founders are not interested in the churn rate at all early on. So, how to make affiliate marketing work for you? Know your userbase. About the author.

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

David Teten

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

If you’re getting 2% upgrade to paid, but 15% monthly churn, then you need to spend more time on the Pro features to insure the cost benefit is there. How can I lower my apps churn rate? All that being said, all equity allocation (giving) should be done with a 4 year vesting, 1 year cliff.