Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

In this webinar, we take time to discuss the different metrics that startups—and established businesses—should be tracking. In terms of pre-purchase, traffic and content metrics. So I’m going to keep going here, “Pre-purchase, the traffic and content metrics.” Peter, anybody have any questions as I go along?

Metrics 84

Metrics Startup Churn Rate Forecast 84

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

When you raise larger rounds there is more “due diligence,” which includes: calling customers, looking at financial metrics, doing cohort analysis (looking for trends like changes in churn rates), evaluating competitor positioning and understanding more of the competency of your executive team.

Burn Rate 150

Burn Rate Cap Table Valuation Software Review 150

ConversionXL

AUGUST 13, 2019

SaaS sales and marketing teams can get overwhelmed by metrics. But without any metrics, it’s impossible to track growth. If growth is the best way to get out alive, marketing metrics do little unless they correlate with sales. But only 400 software companies have made it to the $500M revenue mark.

Metrics 117

Metrics SQL Retention Churn Rate 117

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. Instead, that’s the sort of pre-series-A investment where companies or founders have visions of where they think there are underserved market needs, and they’re coming up with something super excited to try to solve that. . We’re a crossover fund.

Partner 132

Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

One question that keeps coming up when speaking with early stage entrepreneurs when it comes to funding, is what metrics the company needs to hit to raise seed/series A/B etc: What’s a good conversion rate? Is my churn rate below the category average? Example of Baremetrics revenue per user benchmarks.

B2C 141

B2C Technical Review Startup Retention 141

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

A detailed financial model that shows your anticipated revenue, costs and profits (Income Statement) as well as your balance sheet and cashflow statements. I never thought of this until I became the Founder & CEO of my first startup company. against a broad range of similar companies.

Cap Table 336

Cap Table Due Diligence Forecast Churn Rate 336

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how ecommerce customer retention boosts long-term revenue and the strategies you can use to keep customers coming back. Customer retention is a metric that measures customer loyalty and how good your business is at keeping customers over time. What is ecommerce customer retention (and why does it matter)?

Retention 111

Retention eCommerce Channel Community 111

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2017

by Stefan Pretty, founder of Subbly. Subscription business brings recurring revenue. This allows you to enjoy a constant source of incoming revenue, as long as you’re keeping the subscribers satisfied (that is of course essential). The term itself sounds confusing, so should I even bother? SubCom offers ultimate flexibility.

Churn Rate 149

Churn Rate eCommerce Business Model Bootstrapping 149

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

The real metrics that help you determine if you’ve achieved product/market fit. Calculate Your Churn. ” The easiest metric for subscription software products to check is churn rate. . “On SaaS, target churn rate should be around 2% monthly churn. & a lot more.

Software 93

Software Churn Rate eCommerce Flash 93

Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 24, 2015

Since I see a few common patterns of mistakes, I thought I'd add to the LTV literature and point out the top three reasons many investors roll their eyes when they see entrepreneurs present inflated, poorly constructed LTVs: 1) Your churn rate is understated. A monthly churn rate of 1%? 2) Your cost of capital is too low.

Churn Rate 20

Churn Rate Early Stage Revenue Metrics 20

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 11, 2015

how many searches are available on Adwords) and what is the quota attainment and churn rate of the sales people as well as their profile SMB online sales (e.g., In other words, there are universal metrics that smart investors require to make investing decisions. Bonus: European founders should spend a week in San Francisco.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Churn Rate Silicon Valley Engineer 48

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Russell Rothstein, Founder and CEO, IT Central Station , a product review site, said, “We see VCs on our site very often. 3) Raise capital.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model. Most technical founders abominably misprice their SaaS offerings to start out. Anyhow, Server Density previously used a pricing system much beloved by technical founders: highly configurable pricing. It only tends to weakly proxy revenue. Greatest Hits. by Patrick.

Revenue 62

Revenue Distribution Software Non-Compete 62

ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2016

A flowing sales funnel is crucial in any business, but even more so with SaaS businesses… Unlike other business models, revenue is generated over an extended period of time. It’s a common acronym that gets thrown around in the SaaS world that’s basically a “businessy” way of saying “important metrics for tracking your business.”

Software Review 48

Software Review Metrics Revenue Acquisition 48

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

The book has been a year in the making, and authors Ben Yoskovitz and Alistair Croll —themselves successful founders with several exits under their belts—spent much of that time speaking with founders, investors, and analysts to understand a really basic, but seldom-asked, question: What's normal? to 3% a month.

Analytics 167

Analytics Lean Metrics Churn Rate 167

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Building Metrics / Usage Reports / KPI 3. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Why do I do it?

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. Now you’re going to move into your revenue model. Okay, so now your revenue model, so this is—. Then referral rates and opt-out rates.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, where setting goals presents a fresh opportunity to achieve different objectives. 4- Reduce churn rate by half. My big hairy audacious goal for my business by the end of this year is to reduce our churn rate by half. Thanks to Anne C.

Papua New Guinea 64

Papua New Guinea Hawaii Advisory Board Churn Rate 64