VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

When you start with an honest and diligent effort to determine the truth of your situation, the right decisions often become self-evident.” — Jim Collins , author of Good to Great. Is my churn rate below the category average? Software as a Service (Saas) benchmarks. What should our MRR growth be?

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B2C Technical Review Startup Retention 141

ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

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. Use IP-identification to better serve your customers. Sales cycle length increased.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. Not only because it’s a product that Bplans and Palo Alto software makes, but because before I joined the company, I used LivePlan to pitch and raise my investment capital. Pretend that you are the investor.

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Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Don’t wait to fill the void before letting him go (but obviously get all the code / usernames / password). I would tell him how you guys feel.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44