Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2022

The way to start is with a sample financial model, available from many sources on the Internet, such as over 200 downloadable free from the Corporate Finance Institute website. The cost to acquire a customer, or traffic to conversion ratios, are critical to the success of most startups.

Conversion Ratio 368

Conversion Ratio Startup Business Model eCommerce 368

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2020

The way to start is with a sample financial model, available from many sources on the Internet, such as over 200 downloadable free from the Corporate Finance Institute website. The cost to acquire a customer, or traffic to conversion ratios, are critical to the success of most startups.

Conversion Ratio 308

Conversion Ratio Startup Business Model eCommerce 308

Guy Nirpaz

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Outright helps small businesses to organize their finances. You cannot manage what you cannot measure so the next step for Outright was to develop a dashboard that shows sign-ups, activated users and active users and the conversion ratio between each of these stages. Make customer success metrics central to the business.

Customer 75

Customer Conversion Ratio Metrics Business Model 75

Growthink Blog

JANUARY 20, 2015

This might look like building revenue projections based on the conversion ratios of web traffic to inquiries (phone, e-mail, text, etc.) Business Planning Entrepreneurship Financing Investing Jay Turo Management Venture Capital' to proposals, to sales, to retention, to ongoing revenue.

Conversion Ratio 48

Conversion Ratio Venture Capital Business Model Retention 48

Growthink Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

This might look like building revenue projections based on the conversion ratios of web traffic to inquiries (phone, e-mail, text, etc.) to proposals, to sales, to retention, to ongoing revenue.

Conversion Ratio 48

Conversion Ratio Business Model Retention Revenue 48

ithacaVC

APRIL 5, 2011

The investment is a small one and, to me, the investor is basically buying a ticket to watch the company and participate in future financings if desirable. The company is at the pre-seed stage, and the outside investment would qualify the company for an additional grant from a government source (matching funds). Seems like a win-win.

Common Stock 45

Common Stock Stock Cap Table Preferred Stock 45

Software By Rob

JUNE 25, 2013

You can grow without money, but only if you stop imitating the startups that have closed a round of financing. You need to define your funnel, track the conversion rates for each step of your funnel, and then adjust and optimize the funnel accordingly until you’ve reached acceptable conversion ratios.

Venture Capital 71

Venture Capital Bootstrapping Distribution Conversion Ratio 71