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? 500 Startups created a helpful primer on key B2C metrics.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 15, 2016

A trial-to-paid conversion rate or mobile user-to-customer conversion rate type metric is a good start. For example, Facebook has a seven friends in ten days metric. The direct open rate for segmented push notifications is 7%. Churn rate is proportional to the distance between sign-up and value.

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andrewchenblog.com

JANUARY 28, 2010

Comments Click to download Freemium spreadsheet Background on this discussion Last year, the stupendous Daniel James co-hosted a talk with me on Lifetime Value metrics for subscription and virtual goods-based items. CPM/CPA/CPC) What do the intermediate metrics look like? impressions/CTR/etc) How does your signup funnel perform?

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

If you are interested in learning more about the Bessemer 10 Laws of SaaS, you can listen to the webminar we did earlier this week with Salesforce by clicking on the picture below: You can also download the full white paper on the SaaS section of the Bessemer website or browse quickly through the slides on slidehsare. at 11:09 AM. Great list!

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