article thumbnail

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

Both Sides of the Table

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. especially about churn rates and your high CACs last quarter relative to the previous year. What do I do now? Was that a blip?

article thumbnail

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. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How to Track and Improve Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Effectiveness

ConversionXL

Measuring customer acquisition for peak effectiveness How to calculate ecommerce customer acquisition cost Calculate much your customers are worth: LTV MRR, churn rates, and other factors that affect your LTV/CAC ratios Find and fix customer acquisition funnel leaks 5 customer acquisition strategies to increase sales and loyalty (with examples) 1.

article thumbnail

Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

Buyers became more critical due to a reduction in reosurces and as a result the entire process started to involve more people ultimately taking longer to close. Companies experience a high churn rate because of bad product adoption. Sales cycle length increased. Content blindness. MQL cost significantly increased.

B2B 150
article thumbnail

Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

In product business it is often measured over multiple purchases and assumptions are made about the repeat rates and in the enterprise or services world LTV can be based on churn rates, which are notoriously hard to predict in an early-stage business. Poorly calculated LTVs can become BVs (bankruptcy values). That bit is easy.

Metrics 150
article thumbnail

Fast Growing Startups Focus on Customers

The Startup Magazine

The fast-growing startups at this stage meet frequently to review the issues that customers have and come up with solutions to the roadmap of the product. Don’t let your engineers find workarounds that will be fixed again later on. Provide solutions to the issues facing the software or service delivery process of your startup.

article thumbnail

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

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. at 11:09 AM.