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Conversion, retention and churn benchmarks

VC Cafe

A high retention rate indicates that customers find the product or service valuable and are likely to continue using it in the future. Churn : The percentage of customers who stop using a product or service after a certain period of time, typically measured over weeks, months, or years. The benchmarks are based on the US market.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

You validated our business model and added huge value to our efforts. This is misleading because in a recurring revenue model, Customer A is much more valuable to the business (assuming typical churn rates) as they will likely generate $360,000 of revenue for the business with renewals over that same three year period.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

That moves into the customer acquisition strategy. This includes again another acronym I’m going to share, CAC, the cost to acquire a customer, the customer acquisition cost. Are you bringing on some investment capital? Are you doing an acquisition? The customer acquisition cost that I talked about.