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Use agile budgeting to manage your cash

David Teten

Instead of budget approvals, monitor key metrics and give managers more flexibility. The next most important set of metrics are sales by category; working capital (cash and other current assets, less current liabilities); EBITA; and gross margin. Traditional budgets can be destructive and a huge waste of time.

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Why That $1 Million Doesn’t Always Mean Your Crowdfunding Campaign Was A Success

YoungUpstarts

This can be done through launching new perks, running flash sales and targeting the non-purchasers from your email list. My company did this by offering bundles of products together at a discount one week into the campaign and running holiday flash sales. The biggest driver of success is also the hardest to measure.

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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. It turns out that COC is the key to this metric of “underlying profitability.” Here’s a way to do it.

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The 4 Types of Stories Founders Need to Tell When Fundraising

View from Seed

Flash forward 100 years: now listed as a noxious weed, the Kudzu is found as far north as NYC and Nova Scotia Canada, and covers 7.5 Each financing you raise is to get to the next milestone, so when pitching your startup, some portion of your pitch should include a called shot. “We million acres of land. then go do X.

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SEOMoz TAGFEE and Me

Feld Thoughts

Today SEOMoz announced that Foundry Group has led an $18 million financing and I’m joining the board. Rand Fishkin (The Wizard of Moz) has an incredibly detailed post up titled Moz’s $18 Million Venture Financing: Our Story, Metrics and Future describing the financing process and company history in great depth.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

A new pricing or packaging model does not by itself represent a meaningful core differentiation, and the rising abundance of “subscription” or “flash sales” companies heightened our concern with regard to barriers to entry. For starters, the business metrics are quite compelling. The company has clearly “struck a chord” with consumers.

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Five Sweet Web Analytics Resolutions To Kick It Up A Notch

Occam's Razor

When I went to their website it was a 100% flash website with a constrained small size where it took too much looking to click on anything and then too much scrolling to read anything and unclear calls to actions (if any). Ask your Finance department where most money is being spent on the web. Find the biggest abandonment page.