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9 Things That Take a Pitch From Good to Great

Up and Running

Investors want to hear about your first customers, other investments put into the company (including your own sweat equity), key media placement, signed letters of intent (LOI) to purchase/partner, product and customer milestones , key hires, and so on. percent average conversion rate. 5 percent monthly churn rate.

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Social Media Analytics: Twitter: Quantitative & Qualitative Metrics

Occam's Razor

Churn Rate: In my days at DirecTV one of the metrics that the company was obsessed with atleast then and rightly so, was Churn Rate. And remember that history is littered with companies that were growing just fine but they still died a painful death because of Churn Rate. Be willing to work hard.

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9 Things That Take a Pitch From Good To Great

Up and Running

Investors want to hear about your first customers, other investments put into the company (including your own sweat equity), key media placement, signed letters of intent (LOI) to purchase/partner, product and customer milestones, key hires, etc. 0.22% average conversion rate. 5% monthly churn rate.