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

David Teten

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

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Product Design for SaaS Startups: Best Practices and Examples

ReadWriteStart

Use data analytics: Data analytics can provide valuable insights into how users interact with your product. HubSpot : HubSpot provides a comprehensive user experience with marketing, sales, and customer service tools. MRR is a crucial metric for measuring the growth of a SaaS business.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

Everything they do is scrutinized by its potential impact on scalable growth… An effective growth hacker also needs to be disciplined to follow a growth hacking process of prioritizing ideas (their own and others in the company), testing the ideas, and being analytical enough to know which tested growth drivers to keep and which ones to cut.

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Lean Analytics

Startup Lessons Learned

Lean Analytics is the latest addition to the Lean Series. Here's what they have to say about churn rates in SaaS businesses: The best SaaS sites or applications usually have churn ranging from 1.5% to 3% a month. For other sites, it’ll vary depending on how you define “disengaged.”

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Digital Analytics Simplified: The Beginner’s Guide

ConversionXL

With digital analytics , you have access to all the data you need to make smart decisions without solely relying on feelings. In this guide, you’ll learn how digital analytics can benefit your business and how to use it to communicate with stakeholders. Table of contents What is digital analytics and what can you gain from it?

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When Customers Make You Smarter

Steve Blank

Here’s what happened when an extraordinary Digital Health team gained several critical insights about their business model. Brandon Arbiter was a VP at FreshDirect where he built the company’s data management and analytics practices. Having a multisided market with five segments is a pretty complicated business model.

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

Cracking the Code

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Posted by Philippe Botteri.