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SSEBITDA – A steady-state profit metric for SaaS companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This is the fourth article in a series on novel ideas for SaaS metrics, which started with The unprofitable SaaS business model trap , COC: a new metric for cancellations , and The mistake of 1/c in LTV. I like this model, and we’ve used it to-date at WP Engine. Here’s a way to do it.

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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. Late stage large regionally based funds that invest in late stage or mezzanine deals.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. I would say the norm for many early-stage companies is somewhere between 6-10 in-person meetings per year. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million.

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Is This Ex-Googler’s Pre-Product Approach the Fast Track to Product-Market Fit?

View from Seed

Engineers and even marketers proudly claim to be “full stack.” Starting in 2009, Savoia began using an approach as an engineering director at Google that helped the tech giant know whether it was about to build the right product for the market … or a product that would flop.

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The Importance Of Having Great Content On Your Startup Website

YoungUpstarts

Consequently, Google and other search engines pick these signals. Good content that’s likely to impress search engines contains the following metrics. This user behavior sends wrong signals to search engines. This can be achieved with the help of keyword research tools and search engine suggestions.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

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Advice On How To Make Your First Analytics Hire

View from Seed

Analytics is about designing, reporting, and leveraging operating metrics to aid strategic and functional decision-making. These are operating metrics because they are not part of GAAP financial statements, even though they are critical for everyone from the CEO to marketers and PMs to make data-informed decision on a daily basis.

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