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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

The metrics, and how they relate, are captured in his slide: Note the relationship between retention/referral efforts and lifetime value. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas R : Retention - Do they come back & re-visit over time? R : Referral - Do they like it enough to tell their friends?

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What Should You Send a VC Before Your Meeting?

Both Sides of the Table

If you have another 15–20 super detailed slides they should either be in an appendix after you get through the main presentation or in a separate deck that you may or may not get out. These additional slides are often called “pocket slides” as in you have them in your pocket in case you need to pull them out. Don’t send these?—?go

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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

Both Sides of the Table

For what ever reason we’re wired to have amnesia during the run up and prescient memories of how we ‘knew it all along’ as soon as the slide begins. If your investor worked inside of a SaaS company for years and disagrees with me then listen to them. Your favorite investor told you this was a bad idea.

Marketing 354
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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

Both Sides of the Table

Send me in a corner to work on slides, graphs, spreadsheets and charts. I was a guy who had built 2 SaaS companies and had sold to and worked for Salesforce.com. I could become the SaaS guy. We got to define Internet offerings for one of the largest telcos in Europe. Yet everywhere I went I was now “strategy guy.”

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A Guide to Using Authority & Social Proof in Fund Raising

Both Sides of the Table

Because I built two SaaS companies and sold my second one to Salesforce.com (where I then took on the role of VP Products) I am often asked to look at SaaS and/or sales-oriented deals for others.

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Effective Startup 360-Performance Reviews - Entrepreneurs Should Sanity Check Their Self-awareness

InfoChachkie

I am on the Board of a growing, dynamic SaaS business which has recently graduated from the startup stage and entered the early-growth phase. I documented these highlights on PowerPoint slides, using as many direct quotes as possible and splitting the comments into “Positive” and “Negative” feedback for each question.

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Interview with Steve Seigel, Hatched

socalTECH

If you have one of the products that can neatly slide into one of their category groups, they will be really popular. It might be more difficult for a SaaS platform, or something that's not as tangible, but anything tangible in health and wellness, fashion, and any other kind of consumer group would be a good fit.

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