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Startup Benchmarks

VC Cafe

Forecasting is sometimes done by dragging the mouse based on many assumptions, because it’s hard to predict the future. 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?

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How to Write a Business Plan

Up and Running

Your business plan isn’t complete without a financial forecast. Does each business partner own an equal portion of the business? This partnership may help provide access to a target market segment for your company while allowing your partner to offer a new product or service to their customers. Read more ». Financial Plan.

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How to Write a Business Plan for a SaaS Company

Up and Running

Because of this, it’s critical to create a plan that includes a solid financial forecast. Subscription businesses will need the requisite subscription sales forecast as long as some key metrics that savvy investors will want to see. Subscription sales forecast. Churn rate. Financial plan.

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Is Your Startup Tracking the Right Metrics?

Up and Running

What a lot of companies or startups don’t realize is when you put up forecast together, it’s difficult if you’re a startup. If you look at something like Constant Contact with a 2% churn rate, their customers are going to stick around something around 36 months. Hopefully, that helps answer that question.

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

Both Sides of the Table

Getting the first meeting with a VC isn’t easy because each partner at a VC firm gets so many requests for meetings that he/she couldn’t possibly take them all so they tend to prioritize people that were introduced from high-quality sources. Some people find this elitist?—?I against a broad range of similar companies.

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How to Write a Business Plan for a Subscription Box Service

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If you partner with a large, wealthy private school district who wants you to provide comic book packages to all their eighth-grade students every month, that contract might be key your business survival for a period of time. What vendors can you partner with to give you discounted or free sample products for your box?

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The 5 Metrics You Need to Track for Your Subscription Business to Succeed

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Thankfully, my wife and business partner, @mommyceo , and I had a great team to help us make the transition and we now run a growing and healthy subscription business with our LivePlan product as our foundation. But, beyond the forecast, we needed to know what metrics we should be tracking. Churn and Churn Rate.

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