VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Understanding the benchmarks on conversion, retention, and churn for your business is therefore critical. Retention : The percentage of customers who continue to use a product or service after a certain period of time, typically measured over weeks, months, or years. Retention over 50% is considered top quartile.

Retention 109

Retention Conversion Churn Rate B2C 109

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? Benchmarks are typically specific to stage/business model/geo. What should our MRR growth be?

B2C 141

B2C Technical Review Startup Retention 141

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

For consumer companies this is usually around user acquisition, engagement, and retention. If in the long run your B2C business is likely to have an ad-based revenue model, the ability to acquire a large number of users at zero or extraordinarily low cost is critical. Once you cross the chasm of launching v1.0,

Seed Stage 149

Seed Stage B2B Seed Capital Revenue 149

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2022

” No one questions the importance of revenue, but asking the question enabled us to start thinking on what would be the right metric. Did you know that companies like Airbnb, Spotify and Netflix purposely avoid setting revenue as their North Star Metric? Why is revenue not a good ‘North Star’ Metric?

Metrics 179

Metrics Revenue B2C Portfolio 179

Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? If you work in B2C or e-commerce, you optimize that Add to Cart flow like crazy because that is your revenue. You're really getting enough early users to help you validate to achieve a certain level of retention rate.

Product 78

Product CTO Hire Startup Fractional CTO 78

ConversionXL

AUGUST 1, 2017

Customer loyalty is sometimes confused with customer satisfaction, as well as retention. Retention is the behavioral indicator of loyalty, whereas loyalty is usually attitudinal (though technically retention could be considered behavioral loyalty). We can say the same thing for B2C products, for example, HeadSpace.

Customer 114

Customer Retention B2C Programming 114

ConversionXL

AUGUST 1, 2017

Customer loyalty is sometimes confused with customer satisfaction, as well as retention. Retention is the behavioral indicator of loyalty, whereas loyalty is usually attitudinal (though technically retention could be considered behavioral loyalty). We can say the same thing for B2C products, for example, HeadSpace.

Customer 91

Customer Retention B2C Programming 91