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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. This is often called “funnel optimization.”

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Conversion, retention and churn benchmarks

VC Cafe

Understanding the benchmarks on conversion, retention, and churn for your business is therefore critical. Let’s get the definitions straight: Conversion : The percentage of potential customers who complete a desired action, such as signing up for a trial, making a purchase, or subscribing to a service.

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How to Calculate & Maintain a Healthy Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)

ConversionXL

That’s why Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is such a critical metric. Freemium users also have a much longer conversion funnel or “ penny gap ” compared to free trial users. This will help you attribute the conversion to the correct acquisition cost. LTV/CAC – Understanding the golden metric.

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Social Media Analytics: Twitter: Quantitative & Qualitative Metrics

Occam's Razor

First: An Ode to New Thinking: One common thing between the all tools in this post is that they were built by "outsiders" One of the things I love and adore about Twitter (besides all that connection and conversation) is how its open API has lit a fierce fire of innovation when it comes to analytics. Quantitative Metrics / Analyses.

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The Essential SaaS Metrics for Growth

ConversionXL

SaaS sales and marketing teams can get overwhelmed by metrics. But without any metrics, it’s impossible to track growth. If growth is the best way to get out alive, marketing metrics do little unless they correlate with sales. According to Gartner , three metrics form the foundation for those growth levers: (Image source).

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13 Essential Digital Marketing Metrics & KPIs to Measure Performance

ConversionXL

Marketing metrics are a competitive advantage. You have to track metrics you can act on. In this article, you’ll learn which metrics to measure to understand and improve marketing performance. In this article, you’ll learn which metrics to measure to understand and improve marketing performance. – Seth Godin.

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Startup Benchmarks

VC Cafe

One question that keeps coming up when speaking with early stage entrepreneurs when it comes to funding, is what metrics the company needs to hit to raise seed/series A/B etc: What’s a good conversion rate? Is my churn rate below the category average? 500 Startups created a helpful primer on key B2C metrics.

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