YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2013

Churn Rate. But many first time SaaS merchants overlook churn or don’t even know what churn is. We will explore the ins and outs of churn and tell you how to fight it. What is churn rate? Churn is the number of subscribers who cancel their recurring subscription plans. A high churn rate indicates customers are cancelling subscriptions frequently which will also decrease your LTV. In a perfect world, churn wouldn’t exist.

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For Entrepreneurs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Building for Success SaaS Sales & Marketing Machine Startup Help churn churn rate Cost of Customer Acquisition customer engagement SaaS business SaaS churn SaaS churn rate SaaS customer engagement saas marketing SaaS sales SaaS VCThe goal of a SaaS CEO should be to increase the profit they make from each customer (LTV), and lower the costs in sales and marketing that it takes to acquire each customer (CAC).

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The biggest driver for high LTV is repeat purchase behavior (in an e-commerce business) respectively a low churn rate (in a SaaS company). In addition, churn tends to rise as a company grows. News $100 million Churn rate e-commerce Facebook LTV marketplaces network effects Software as a service viral coefficient Viral marketing Zynga

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Guy Nirpaz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Following Lincoln Murphy’s post on SixteenVentures.com (talking about conversion average rate for free trials, pricing pages or Freemium for SaaS or Web Apps), conversion rate average figures will do no good, as it doesn’t reflect the whole picture and usually lacking context. Every company aspires to increase their conversion rate figures but Murphy’s suggestion is to figure out where you are today and then figure out how to make it better.

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Guy Nirpaz

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Totango SaaS Executive Dashboard captures the current SaaS best practices around monitoring customer engagement and customer success and tracks visitors, signups, activations, conversions and your SaaS churn rate. Business Insights cohort analysis Customer Engagement customer success Product updates saas best practices saas churn rate saas dashboard saas metrics survey User Engagement saas

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For Entrepreneurs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

We worked together with Pacific Crest, an investment banking firm with a specific focus on SaaS, to survey 155 SaaS companies on a variety of topics such as growth rates, CAC (cost to acquire a customer), gross margins, churn rates, etc. Business Model SaaS CAC churn

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For Entrepreneurs

OCTOBER 29, 2015

This week I’m sharing the results from Part 2 of the survey where we compare application delivery methods, operational costs and gross margins, contract terms, churn rates, capital requirements and accounting methods. Last week I posted the results from Part 1 of our survey in which 300+ SaaS companies shared data on their growth and go-to-market strategies.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 10, 2012

One of these was around churn – he asserted that one of the clear weaknesses of the business was the high churn rate. He didn’t have a high churn rate at all – in fact, his churn rate after a customer was paying for three months was minimal. Instead of articulating a powerful story about low customer acquisition costs with minimal downstream churn, he lead with “the worst problem with the business is our high churn rate.”

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2020

And if your goal is to retain your current clientele, you’ll need to look at your churn rate. Images rule the world we live in. And this makes perfect sense, as 65% of the human population is said to be visual learners. Governments, studios, and marketers already understand this, and how important a role video plays in marketing.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Conversions, leads and churn rate. Nick is the founder and CEO of Delmondo. He works with brands and startups improving their digital marketing and social media strategy, focusing on branded content. The recent proliferation in new channels (Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, digital TV, mobile messaging apps) ?and

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Churn and Churn Rate. Churn is the number of customers that cancel your service in a given month – when they leave, they’ve “churned out” and are no longer subscribing to your service. Churn rate is the percentage of customers that leave every month. The best way to think about churn is to think about a leaky bucket. Churn Rate =# of customers who canceled ÷ total customers at the start of the month.

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Transformify - Recruiting

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Initially, lots of potential clients may be interested to try out the product because it’s new and the flow of new users may mask the high churn rate. Even more, some founders are not interested in the churn rate at all early on.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 24, 2015

Since I see a few common patterns of mistakes, I thought I'd add to the LTV literature and point out the top three reasons many investors roll their eyes when they see entrepreneurs present inflated, poorly constructed LTVs: 1) Your churn rate is understated. One important component to an LTV calculation is the churn rate or cancellation rate. A monthly churn rate of 1%?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

But it’s surprising to me how many companies with recurring/subscription revenue don’t understand the interactions between the elements that make up customer acquisition cost (CAC), churn and lifetime value (LTV). There are numerous online resources to help with the exact mathematical formulas for CAC, CAC payback, churn rate and LTV. So with everything else being equal (MRR, churn rate, etc), you’ll achieve faster CAC payback and more LTV.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 2, 2013

And they realized that the use of the Tidepool software could reduce the device companies’ customer churn rate by at least 1%. We talk a lot about Customer Development, but there’s nothing like seeing it in action to understand its power. Here’s what happened when an extraordinary Digital Health team gained several critical insights about their business model. The first was reducing what they thought was a five-sided market to a simpler two-sided one.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Customer happiness is the lifeblood of any business — after all, happy customers mean lower churn rates, increased word-of-mouth marketing, a boost for internal morale, and so much more. by Allison Yount, Director of Customer Success at Scout RFP. Something that many tech companies will quickly find out is that much of that happiness starts with the onboarding process.

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For Entrepreneurs

OCTOBER 31, 2017

You can find the full 2017 survey results here: Part 1 shares growth rates, go-to-market trends and cost structure Part 2 covers application delivery methods, operational costs, gross margins, contract terms, churn rates, capital requirements and accounting methods. The third annual forEntrepreneurs SaaS Survey Infographic shares top highlights from this year’s SaaS Survey results!

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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? Is my churn rate below the category average? In SaaS the main benchmarks being measured are revenue growth, sales efficiency (unit economics), churn and burn rate.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

On the flip side of engagement, we can look at churn as a measure of the number of individuals moving out of a collective group over a specific period of time. Churned users can be segmented as follows: Total Churned Users = New Churned Users + Old Churned Users. New churned users = inactive users in the current cycle who were active in the previous cycle. Knowing the number of users that have churned allows you to calculate your churn rate.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2020

Companies that actively focus on CX can significantly reduce churn rates, increase retention rates, and earn higher revenues. by Nathan Pitzer , Head of Marketing at Augment CXM.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

especially about churn rates and your high CACs last quarter relative to the previous year. You had an amazing meeting with an investor. Your product demo crushed. The dialog was great. They told you how much they loved your space. The meeting was only supposed to last 45 minutes but you ran 90. The assistant tried to end the meeting twice but was shoooshed away.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Visualizations about monthly recurring revenue, profits and loss, cycle analysis, rebill rates and more are updated in real time. You’ll be able to better segment key metrics like COGS, eCPA, Churn Rate and more to better understand the history of your business. One important immediate result of having a platform that screens all transactions in advance is lower chargeback rates.

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SVPG

AUGUST 10, 2014

It may include profitability, but it more likely will focus on increasing growth, or reducing churn rate, or driving up engagement, or driving revenue, or any number of other possible goals. One question that I continue to get from many company leaders is whether or not product managers should be given P&L responsibility for their products.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 18, 2010

StartupCFO , May 6, 2010 Great look at important metrics for SaaS and the importance of churn rate Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups, Startup Development and being a Startup CTO. Here are a couple of the other collections: 16 Great Startup Posts from March , Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

High churn rates. High return rates. High referral rates. When I wrote last night about Growing the right way I said that startups should aim to grow sustainably. This morning I thought I would say more about what that means, starting with characteristics of unsustainable growth: Adding users who are unlikely to engage (e.g. incentivised traffic, users recruited under false pretences). Adding users via channels that will never become economic.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2019

With access to countless metrics, it’s easy to obsess over email opens or bounce rates. Did your high bounce rate lead customers to churn ? Although a high bounce rate can absolutely contribute to those problems, we still don’t know the root cause. In a product-led business, these are the macro outputs you need to track: Number of signups; Number of upgrades; Average Revenue Per User (ARPU); Customer Churn; ARR; Monthly recurring revenue (MRR).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2017

More importantly, a subscription business model enables you to manage the cash flow, upgrade your business planning and optimize metrics such as churn rates, the lifetime value of a customer, expansion, and more. by Stefan Pretty, founder of Subbly. Subscription business models have been around for a pretty long time, but thanks to modern technology, this model has evolved from milk or newspapers delivery to a versatile eCommerce experience.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 2, 2016

These metrics can be obtained through analysing a conversion rate. Another kind of metric in this group is the churn rate which shows all the losses, e.g. in revenue, customers, etc. by Beata Green, Director of HeadChannel. New technologies emerge daily and bring ingenious products to the world. It’s generally accepted to praise developers and designers for bringing these products to life but there is usually someone else behind the concepts and ideas.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 13, 2013

Products that are critical to the daily workflow, like business management software and collaboration tools, tend to have the lowest churn rates. Photo credit: Wade Brooks Repeat usage is one of the most important success factors for building a large, stand-alone company. It’s hard to grab people’s mindshare and create a loyal user base when people only need to use your product or service occasionally.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

CAC and payback period are key inputs into the financial model which works out how much cash a company will burn each month at a given growth rate, and therefore whether a company can get past key revenue milestones before they need to raise their next round. You can also use it for with subscription businesses (including SaaS) but in these situations calculations based on churn rate might be simpler and more effective.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2020

We discussed why in Q4 you will see large renegotiations of SaaS contracts and increased churn rates. I pointed out that throughout history building companies has always taken time and we as a market have put an urgency to rush growth rates. Several years ago I made an appearance in a burgeoning new podcast called “20 Minute VC,” which by now needs no introduction.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

I’ve talked before about the metrics you need to know and track when you are running a subscription business , but there are really only three things you can do to move the needle of growth: reduce cancellations (churn rate), increase average revenue per user (ARPU), and increase the number of people who signup. Reduce churn. Churn is essentially your cancellation rate. The percentage of your paying customers that cancel is your churn rate.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

But if you don’t – now you have many cynical VCs lining up critiquing your CAC/LTV ratios, your churn rates, your poor performing cohorts. VC funding. Our perspectives on the topic wax and wane with market cycles.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Churn. The rate at which a customer cancels over a given year indicates whether your value proposition is resonating with your customers. It’s important to measure and analyze churn both by the number of accounts and the amount of revenue lost, but the best enterprise startups dig even deeper. They’ll segment their customers to analyze churn by category. Enterprise startups should aim for an annual churn rate under 10 percent.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

4- Reduce churn rate by half. My big hairy audacious goal for my business by the end of this year is to reduce our churn rate by half. One piece of the puzzle that we have yet to solve is how to reduce churn. This is one of the biggest problems in SaaS – churn is essentially the number of customers you lose every month because they cancel their subscription. Have a goal that’s third parties think is impossible?

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SVPG

APRIL 6, 2015

If, for example, the business objective is to significantly lower the customer churn rate, then that’s the team’s mission. Reducing the churn rate can definitely be a hard problem, and there are likely any number of ways to approach fixing this. In my last article I discussed the trade-offs between the sometimes conflicting goals of team autonomy versus leverage.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

According to an article published by Forbes, metrics that play a critical role in any startup management includes revenue run rate, average revenue per user, customer acquisition rate, churn rate, and operation efficiency. by Cameron Johnson. Do you want to hear the cold, hard truth? 9 out of 10 startups are set to fail before they can even make money.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 13, 2019

In fact, SaaS companies with an annual growth rate of 20% or less have a 92% chance of failure, according to research by McKinsey. Retention rate. Don’t ignore churn, even when your customer retention is on point. That puts a spotlight on churn. For a SaaS company with a hundred customers, two customers churning isn’t going to move the needle. However, churn compounds. That 2% churn rate that wasn’t a problem at the start?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

What you’re experiencing is customer churn. What is customer churn? Also known as “customer churn,” customer attrition is the loss of clients or customers using your service. We’ll focus on voluntary churn, because voluntary churn has actionable prevention steps by SaaS providers, while involuntary churn is mostly unavoidable, like when a user has to stop SaaS subscription services due to death, relocation, etc. Types of Churn from DataScience.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

Will that be enough or will high churn rates creep in, new toys be introduced into the market, new time sucks pulling user attention away? This article first appeared on TechCrunch. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the proliferation of starutps in the past 2 years.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Exhibit A: This is the table of contents from the article that currently ranks first for the keyword “conversion rate optimization tips.” Exhibit B: This is the best-selling course in the “Conversion Rate Optimization” category on Udemy. They’re at-risk or churned, and need to be re-engaged. There’s a gaping hole in the way that SaaS companies talk about conversion rate optimization and experimentation. Product or onboarding milestone completion rates.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2016

Calculating your loan-to-value ratio (LTV) requires clear data, including revenue collected from a customer in a given period, profit margin, churn rate, and retention costs. by Hagan Major , president and chief operating officer of YellowHammer. When running a new startup, entrepreneurs have to wear countless hats, including (and especially) one for marketing.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

percent average conversion rate. 5 percent monthly churn rate. I’ve seen hundreds of startups pitch to angel investors and venture capitalists, and most of them—at best— are just okay. There have been plenty of pretty good ones that hit all the key components of a pitch , but only a handful of those took it a step further and were truly great. When I think about what set those excellent pitches apart from the rest, it turns out that they all shared some of the same qualities.

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