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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).

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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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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. If you look at something like Constant Contact with a 2% churn rate, their customers are going to stick around something around 36 months. Hopefully, that helps answer that question.

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