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Getting Back Your Series A Mojo

Both Sides of the Table

My internal compass says that “country-club” entrepreneurs struggle to make as big of an impact because it’s really hard to totally change a system that you’re part of and have a vested interest in. Seth responded to an entrepreneur’s request for financing and the entrepreneur wrote back a nastygram.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. If you’re getting 2% upgrade to paid, but 15% monthly churn, then you need to spend more time on the Pro features to insure the cost benefit is there. How can I lower my apps churn rate? Other sources of capital. Government grants – Credit cards / debt.