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How to measure your power in the Internet marketplace.

Berkonomics

The old measures, including return on investment, percentage of profit against revenue or employee count, and more, obviously are still relevant. A simple statistic which can be derived from a good general ledger using GAAP accounting procedures. CACR (Customer Acquisition Cost Ratio). CPA (Cost per Acquisition).

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Everything you do adds or reduces company value

Berkonomics

But each commitment of resources of any substantial size for acquisition of new products, talent, even new companies, changes the value of your enterprise perhaps to a great degree. Should I make an acquisition to increase value? Let’s analyze the effect of a potential acquisition upon the value of your company.

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How TVC Aims At Acquisitions, Not IPOs, with Jeb Spencer

socalTECH

We thought it might be interesting to talk with one of the fund's managing directors, Jeb Spencer about the fund's success in technology investments, plus how it managed to raise another fund in this kind of environment, plus its unique goal of getting companies to an acquisition--and not an IPO.

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Measuring your power in the Internet marketplace.

Berkonomics

The old measures, including return on investment, percentage of profit against revenue or employee count, and more, obviously are still relevant. A simple statistic which can be derived from a good general ledger using GAAP accounting procedures. CACR (Customer Acquisition Cost Ratio). The lower, the better.

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Think of your exit as you commit your resources along the way.

Berkonomics

But each commitment of resources of any substantial size for acquisition of new products, talent, even new companies, changes the value of your enterprise perhaps to a great degree. Let’s analyze the effect of a potential acquisition upon the value of your company.

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10 Metrics To Drive Your Annual Business Review

Startup Professionals Musings

For starters, here is my selection of some key metrics that every six-sigma joint like GE tracks without thinking, but that too many small businesses haven’t yet formalized: Sales revenue. Sales data needs to be correlated to advertising campaigns, price changes, seasonal forces, competitive actions, and other costs of sales.

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10 Key Metrics To Take a Startup to the Next Level

Startup Professionals Musings

Here is my selection of ten key metrics that every six-sigma joint like GE tracks without thinking, but too many small businesses only monitor haphazardly, if at all: Sales revenue. Sales is simply defined as income from customer purchases of goods and services, minus the cost associated with things like returned or undeliverable merchandise.

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