VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Understanding the benchmarks on conversion, retention, and churn for your business is therefore critical. Retention : The percentage of customers who continue to use a product or service after a certain period of time, typically measured over weeks, months, or years. Retention over 50% is considered top quartile.

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Retention Conversion Churn Rate B2C 109

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

But for less well known founders, a series A requires pretty significant revenue, growth, and retention metrics. Because of this, there is a glut of companies out there that can’t quite get to a series A and are raising second or third seed rounds. So, investors can wait around asking for more traction.

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Seed Stage Cofounder Retention Founder 331

View from Seed

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Over the summer, based on feedback from our portfolio and the broader startup community, NextView created pre-formatted board deck templates for seed-stage startups — part of our Growth Guides series. As Rob Go wrote , board decks and board meetings can waste loads of time at the seed stage.

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Seed Stage Cap Table Metrics Burn Rate 331

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. Now it’s time to set the stage with the early traction you have. Seed stage VCs are realistic about how much traction a very raw company might have.

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Seed Stage B2B Seed Capital Revenue 149

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. Investors want to know the critical thinking behind the inputs and value-drivers of the business, and how that results in the outputs on the critical metrics and finances.

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Seed Stage Retention Restful Valuation 166

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. The problem is that there are no other metrics they can look at to judge the content of a book to know if it’s worth reviewing. Is that a lot? In that I see opportunity.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Hippoland

JUNE 26, 2016

But, for most companies, it will cover something like this (not necessarily in this order): Problem Solution / Your Product Traction / Your Unit Metrics Team Market Problem - Interestingly, most people glance over this slide. I’m a seed investor – what would I expect? What has the retention been so far (if you know)?

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Email Seed Stage Cofounder Demand 91