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Critical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Founders

Up and Running

Many startups focus on growth (instead of profits) and often need to track KPIs that may be different from those used by established businesses: Burn rate : indicates the company’s negative cash flow or how quickly it’s spending money. Activation rate: measures how many visitors are engaging with your website or app.

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Startup Benchmarks

VC Cafe

Forecasting is sometimes done by dragging the mouse based on many assumptions, because it’s hard to predict the future. 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?

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Is Your Startup Tracking the Right Metrics?

Up and Running

What a lot of companies or startups don’t realize is when you put up forecast together, it’s difficult if you’re a startup. If you look at something like Constant Contact with a 2% churn rate, their customers are going to stick around something around 36 months. Hopefully, that helps answer that question.

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