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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

Leaders (company is leaving China, our IPO is next week, 1,800 new stores are being opened in 180 days, our new IRR is 8%). … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. Any big shifts in investment (marketing, customer experience, team sizes, tools).

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. Do you feel the need to raise more capital quickly before the prices erode further and bring down your IRR? If you over-fund the industry, aggregate returns fall.

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