VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2021

Perhaps it’s boredom, or Zoom fatigue, but there’s something quite appealing these days about having social conversations without turning on a camera. While Clubhouse is the most popular of this lot, several new startups are vying to be the place where the conversation happens. Spoon – audio live streaming.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 6, 2024

The first time I wrote about startup benchmarks was in 2019 and it became one of the most popular posts on VC Cafe. Conversion Rates : Free-to-paid conversion rates vary, with freemium products typically seeing a median conversion rate of around 5%, while free trials have a median rate of about 10%.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2019

We are also focusing a great deal on cyber-security as we have seen an all-time high in risks associated with doing business online in 2019. In 2019 we focused on adding new content to the site. In 2020, we plan to invest half of our marketing budget into professional copywriting to improve the conversion rate of our traffic.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

The same goes for your sales conversations; why did new leads seek you out, and what objections do you hear during the sales process? Uncovering popular articles and conversations will show you what people are most interested in, which is useful for “seeding” your content research. Collect data sources for quantitative insights.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Who says Austin can’t do B2C now ? If it wasn’t for a fierce conversation that I had with Arthur Patterson, the co-founder of Accel Partners, Coremetrics would have gone out of business in early 2001. And Josh Kopelman and First Round Capital were among the seed investors in Uber, the blockbuster IPO-to-be of 2019.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

One question that keeps coming up when speaking with early stage entrepreneurs when it comes to funding, is what metrics the company needs to hit to raise seed/series A/B etc: What’s a good conversion rate? 500 Startups created a helpful primer on key B2C metrics. 500 Startups created a helpful primer on key B2C metrics.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2020

As the ramp up continued, we realized that a B2C to B2B pivot would require an overhaul of our current operating practices, how we talked about ourselves, and and a completely new set of customers. We had to have serious conversations between ourselves if we wanted to essentially start from ground zero again.

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