Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics. Luckily, we also discovered that certain other metrics, like LTV and CPA were much better than we initially projected. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A business that strives for something like this should absolutely be charging money from day one, in order to establish baselines for their two key metrics: CPA (the cost to acquire a new customer) and LTV (the lifetime value of each acquired customer). Founders struggle with this question. Founders struggle with this question.

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www.readwriteweb.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Along those lines, last week, Ryan Carson, co-founder of Carsonified offered a list of six key metrics for your web app and how to track them. CPA Definition : CPA is "Cost per Acquisition." Are there any additional metrics you think SaaS companies should track? Thanks for including the spreadsheet.

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www.readwriteweb.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Along those lines, last week, Ryan Carson, co-founder of Carsonified offered a list of six key metrics for your web app and how to track them. CPA Definition : CPA is "Cost per Acquisition." Are there any additional metrics you think SaaS companies should track? Thanks for including the spreadsheet.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

With a baby on the way, me and my wife bought our first home in 2010. When I decided to leave my mobile data start-up in 2013, I remembered my mortgage experience from 2010, and found that nothing had changed – the model was broken, antiquated and inefficient. After looking at many extensions, we came up with the word ‘metrics.’

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