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Conversion, retention and churn benchmarks

VC Cafe

This is a question startup founders ask themselves multiple times a week. Understanding the benchmarks on conversion, retention, and churn for your business is therefore critical. Understanding the benchmarks on conversion, retention, and churn for your business is therefore critical. How are we doing?

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Product Design for SaaS Startups: Best Practices and Examples

ReadWriteStart

I’ll start by taking you to the world of Startup X, a passionate team of entrepreneurs who believed they had the next big thing in the world of software as a service (SaaS). It’s disheartening, but sadly, this is one experience that many startup founders face. Do you find yourself and your project in a similar position?

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One of the Biggest Mistakes Enterprise Startups Make

Both Sides of the Table

The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation people was a bad thing. If you’re an early-stage enterprise startup services revenue is exactly what you need. We like software.

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How to Optimize SaaS Development Costs

Up and Running

How to optimize SaaS startup development costs. In this blog, we are going to discuss some of the important practices to optimize product development and remove unnecessary startup expenses. Most SaaS startups want to launch with more features because of the belief that it will help them increase the adoption.

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

especially about churn rates and your high CACs last quarter relative to the previous year. Or maybe your strategy isn’t to go pitch them again but rather to invite them to an entrepreneur dinner that you’ve organized in the private room of a local restaurant and you’d like to invite them to meet 12 other startup founders.

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Fast Growing Startups Focus on Customers

The Startup Magazine

Startups have only one way of thriving, and that is through growth. Every startup company that grows very fast understands the complexity that comes when scaling operations. There are various reasons as to why fast-growing startups spend time monitoring their customer success rate. What fast growing startups should do.

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Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

There has been a lot of public debate over the past several weeks about whether it’s a good thing to be “gross margin positive” or not and commentary always reminds me that some people at startups don’t quite understand financial metrics or even how to think about which ones are healthy. And of course ultimately on profitability.

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