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Metrics to Monitor in Customer Journey Analysis

The Startup Magazine

Metrics play a significant role in customer journey analysis, providing quantifiable data that can be analyzed to glean valuable insights. This proactive approach fosters a positive brand perception, potentially leading to higher customer retention and increased profitability.

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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. What is the LTV?

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From Fat to Fit: Startups Must Navigate Back to Fundamentals to Achieve Long-term Success 

The Startup Magazine

In response to this new environment, startups are reevaluating their strategies to focus on core business health, efficient growth, and sound financial fundamentals. Let’s delve into the strategic pivots some real startups have made to secure their futures.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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The wrongness of relativism

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Was there any startup founder who didn’t feel depressed when that happened? Another collective sigh shudders through the ranks of startup founders, as we grumble over our trifling grindstones. What does it actually mean that metric X is better than average and metric Y is below? Yes, depressed. They’re next!

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An Alternative to Board Decks Some Seed VCs Actually Prefer

View from Seed

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. A seed-stage mobile startup’s housekeeping section might look something like this: Section 3: Core Metrics.

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Pitch Deck Month: Appendix Slides

View from Seed

A few potential slides which can be included in the Appendix: Exit Analysis: Not always as important during the early startup stage since an exit event is presumably in the distance away. Other Questions: Every startup is different. But the real significance of these figures is the exercise behind it.