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

David Teten

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. Some private equity funds are quantifying their exit strategy in a concerted way.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

This is the part that people hate the most, unless you’re a finance geek. That’s going to help you put your financials together, and it’s also going to help because everybody loses customers, so in your model you have to be able to say what the retention rate is of that customer as well, and the churn rate.