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The only 2 ways to build a $100 million business

Version One Ventures

Your business has a high viral co-efficient (or perhaps even a network effect) that lets you amass users cheaply without worrying too much about the monetization per user or spending money on paid acquisition. Even more interesting are businesses that create network effects like marketplaces or social networks.

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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? What should our MRR growth be?

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How to Optimize SaaS Development Costs

Up and Running

It may also increase the churn rate of your customers, who sign up only to realize the product is not what they’re expecting. SaaS companies require servers and other networking infrastructure to run the applications. The UX design should be attractive, easy to use, and intuitive to navigate without affecting the performance.

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Social Media Analytics: Twitter: Quantitative & Qualitative Metrics

Occam's Razor

Churn Rate: In my days at DirecTV one of the metrics that the company was obsessed with atleast then and rightly so, was Churn Rate. And remember that history is littered with companies that were growing just fine but they still died a painful death because of Churn Rate. This is a useful number.

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

Companies experience a high churn rate because of bad product adoption. MQL cost significantly increased. Our findings also suggested, marketing-qualified leads didn’t always convert to sales opportunities as expected. Many customers think about the solution or service as a fancy add-on, but not as a part of operational processes.

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9 Case Studies That’ll Help You Reduce SaaS Churn

ConversionXL

How Groove Reduced Churn by 71% By Defining “Why” Customers Quit. churn rate meant the company’s growth was unsustainable. Leverage what you learn to intervene with high-risk users and lower your churn rate. Now to the case studies…. Despite a steady stream of new users, SaaS startup Groove’s 4.5%

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3 Creative Ways to Grow Your Email List

Duct Tape Marketing

This churn rate, as it’s called, is comprised of subscribers who unsubscribe, mark your email as spam, change employers (and therefore email addresses), and so on. On top of the 30% churn rate, there is a portion of your list – in many cases a significant portion – who are unemotionally subscribed.

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