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Customer-Centric Strategies Win Over Product-Centric

Startup Professionals Musings

The customer lifetime value also must consider the customer stage (search, conversion, retention, advocate) and the profit you expect in total. It’s relatively simple to predict subscription-based and other contractual customers, but much harder to project retention and repeat purchases from customers with unpredictable transactions.

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Slack S-1: Will ARPU Drive Long Term Value?

View from Seed

You can see this both by looking at a cohort “layer cake” graph or by examining the net dollar retention. Slack’s net dollar retention rate is an incredibly impressive 143%. Slack’s net dollar retention rate is decreasing, but is still a long way from dropping below 100%. So Slack generated $1.43 Market Cap. Salesforce = $121B.

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Slack S-1: Will APRU Drive Long Term Value?

Agile VC

You can see this both by looking at a cohort “layer cake” graph or by examining the net dollar retention. Slack’s net dollar retention rate is an incredibly impressive 143%. Slack’s net dollar retention rate is decreasing, but is still a long way from dropping below 100%. So Slack generated $1.43 Market Cap.

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Digital Analytics Simplified: The Beginner’s Guide

ConversionXL

By switching from manual analysis data to predictive analytics, Sprint could quickly analyze user behavior to spot customers at risk of churn and identify retention offers. The platform supports multiple data sources including: Microsoft Excel; Salesforce; Google Analytics; Google BigQuery; Adobe Analytics; Microsoft Azure; IBM Netezza.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

How can we spin up our SharePoint enabled Web Parts which are Windows Phone Capable to be deployed on Azure? It makes you look like a religious zealot and a kind of high self-regarding anal retentive. I’m involved in one startup.NET/Azure is the best fit. It’s an all-in buy-in to be successful. My response: [link].

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