Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

But if you don’t – now you have many cynical VCs lining up critiquing your CAC/LTV ratios, your churn rates, your poor performing cohorts. And if you’re lucky and hit product/market fit straight out of the gate – awesome.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2016

For more on this, read Lean Marketing 101: Setting Goals. Are they staying with your products/services for a long time or using for a short time and leaving (this is called “churn”). A churn rate is the percent of customers who terminate their relationships with your company in a specific period (a month, for example).

Small Business 48

Small Business Churn Rate Advertising Social Media 48

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2017

More importantly, a subscription business model enables you to manage the cash flow, upgrade your business planning and optimize metrics such as churn rates, the lifetime value of a customer, expansion, and more. It is a bootstrappable model. In most cases, urgency and overwhelm can create a lot of stress.

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Churn Rate eCommerce Business Model Bootstrapping 149

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

Lean Analytics is the latest addition to the Lean Series. Here's what they have to say about churn rates in SaaS businesses: The best SaaS sites or applications usually have churn ranging from 1.5% You can order Lean Analytics today. to 3% a month. Today’s leader doesn’t have all the answers.

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Analytics Lean Metrics Churn Rate 167

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. Inversely, if you’re using the agency model to fund another startup or product, you should probably keep things lean. Churn rate was high for a service that many organizations saw as a “nice to have.” Why—or why not—pivot your agency service offering? Image source ).

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2012

These same entrepreneurs read blog posts by Mark Suster, Nic Brisbourne, Eric Ries, and perhaps even Steve Blank, while wholeheartedly embracing the Lean Start-up methodology. They often focus on the things they like doing, or the things they are more comfortable with, to the detriment of their fledgling businesses.

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Metrics Nigeria Ratchet Churn Rate 68

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But if you’re writing a plan as an internal guide for strategic growth, you should consider a lighter version— a Lean Plan. A Lean Plan can also serve as an initial plan that helps you think through all the aspects of starting your business. The five key metrics to judge your subscription model’s success are: Churn and churn rate.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. Similarly, Corsis uses benchmarking data to understand technology spend patterns.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

But notice what’s not listed: messages sent per person, churn rates of active users, or activation rate of new user. But notice what’s not listed: messages sent per person, churn rates of active users, or activation rate of new user. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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San Francisco Metrics Lean PR 154

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

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. Then referral rates and opt-out rates. How many people are going to leave?

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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? If you’re getting 2% upgrade to paid, but 15% monthly churn, then you need to spend more time on the Pro features to insure the cost benefit is there.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44