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Visualizing the Interactions Between CAC, Churn and LTV

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

If you like this, go see his Shockwave Innovations blog ) Anyone that has taken an accounting class or learned basic business financials knows the interaction between key elements of a P&L (revenue, cost, expense) and a balance sheet (assets, liabilities, equity). Now let’s cover those nuances I mentioned.

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Is Your Startup Tracking the Right Metrics?

Up and Running

In this webinar, we take time to discuss the different metrics that startups—and established businesses—should be tracking. It’s hard to understand how many people will you actually attract, what is it going to cost, what’s your conversion rate, how long will people stay. Those things are all really hard to just get.

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

Both Sides of the Table

A detailed financial model that shows your anticipated revenue, costs and profits (Income Statement) as well as your balance sheet and cashflow statements. The buyer is shopping for equity in startups and the seller is looking for cash in exchange for equity and shared governing control of his or her company.

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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.).

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

When you put those two things together, you get high-quality customers, high LTV, and acquisition at super low costs. Do you have other efficiency metrics that you look at when you evaluate businesses to check the quality of growth and the quality of the revenues? You can break that down into the inverse of that churn.

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Your LTV Math is Wrong

Seeing Both Sides

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. A monthly churn rate of 1%? 2) Your cost of capital is too low.

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How to Write a Business Plan

Up and Running

Milestones and Metrics. Deciding on your price can feel more like an art than a science, but there are some basic rules that you should follow: Your pricing should cover your costs. You can look at your costs and then mark up your offering from there. Milestones and Metrics. Read more ». Marketing and Sales Plan.