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Conversion, retention and churn benchmarks

VC Cafe

It’s not just the competition against the incumbents and the large tech platforms that founders has to worry about, but most importantly is the company’s performance and product market fit. Understanding the benchmarks on conversion, retention, and churn for your business is therefore critical.

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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business consultant and angel investor, I often ask for your own assessment of marketing ROI , or customer acquisition cost (CAC). Of course, you need work with partners and channel to quantity their costs and contributions and normalize total results. You have to determine how to share these costs and credit.

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5 Ways to Cut Costs with Business Analytics

The Startup Magazine

The growing data analytics industry is poised to help businesses optimize analytics to reduce costs without jeopardizing growth. Businesses need to increase their business analytics capabilities now more than ever, to protect against fraud, reduce costs, boost productivity, and more. 3) Lower Marketing Costs.

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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

One way to approach that last question is to use this simple model: Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) How will your business reach prospects? And how much will it cost to win them? Start by building just enough of your product to get early CAC and CLV signals (they won’t be perfect). Apply costs to each channel.

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How Businesses Can Better Retain Their Employees

The Startup Magazine

This staggering number can affect your company’s bottom line, but by providing the right incentives, you can decrease the cost of poor employee retention. Furthermore, an entry-level worker’s departure costs the company 50% of their salary to replace them.

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Recession ahead? Follow these Money Saving Tips for your Workplace

ReadWriteStart

Review Your Software Subscriptions “Reviewing your software subscriptions can be a quick way to reduce costs. Remove any redundant software that adds to your costs without providing tangible benefits. Look for discounts and group rates to reduce costs. ” — Carl Jenson, Founder of Compare Bank.

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What Makes Employees Productive in a New Startup?

ReadWriteStart

But one of the secrets to effective scaling is an efficient team; if your employees are working productively and consistently, they’ll be capable of making your vision a reality. What Makes Employees Productive in a New Startup? So what is it that makes employees productive in a new startup? Is Productivity Everything?

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