Consumer startups face unique scaling challenges related to working capital, sales tax, cost of goods sold, and inventory management.
Marketplace Metrics help founders manage their business, benchmark progress and build a story for VCs to easily evaluate performance.
COVID-19 has accelerated the use of Fintech, and we are seeing a number of trends starting to emerge across the board.
These key metrics help SaaS startups identify and develop a scalable model during their Optimization and Expansion phases.
These four SaaS metrics relate to finding product-market fit and are especially useful for Seed-stage SaaS startups.
Important efficiency metrics for SaaS startups include Sales Efficiency (aka the Magic Number), Human Capital Efficiency, and Capital Efficiency.
Customer Success costs are a drag on a startup’s Gross Margins, but much less of a drag than losing customers.
Having easy and correct access to your startup’s inventory levels is critical to effective manufacturing, operations, and sales.
To truly capture the power of scenario analysis, you have to run the mental exercise of putting yourself in that moment.
Financial fraud can be particularly devastating for startups, which often have few resources to both prevent and recover from fraud.