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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

After my board meeting I had to do an interview with a CFO candidate that one of my portfolio companies asked me to speak with. especially about churn rates and your high CACs last quarter relative to the previous year. She was one of the lead engineers at Uber. But it’s only Tuesday. Some were interesting, some weren’t.

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

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

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Your LTV Math is Wrong

Seeing Both Sides

One portfolio company executive confessed to me last week that he knows he is doing it wrong but he just didn't have the time to research the best way to do the LTV calculation. One important component to an LTV calculation is the churn rate or cancellation rate. A monthly churn rate of 1%?

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

This is misleading because in a recurring revenue model, Customer A is much more valuable to the business (assuming typical churn rates) as they will likely generate $360,000 of revenue for the business with renewals over that same three year period. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #3.