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A KPI dashboard for early-stage SaaS startups – new and improved!

The Angel VC

[Update 01/17/2015: There's a new company called ChartMogul ( which we invested in ) which makes it easy to get a real-time dashboard similar to the template below. Check it out! ] [Note: This post first appeared as a guest post on the blog of Totango.

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The 8th DO for SaaS startups - Stay on top of your KPIs

The Angel VC

Equally important is your retention , usually tracked by measuring churn (the inverse of retention), since your CLTV (customer lifetime value) is a direct function of how much you charge your customers and how long they stay on board. With that caveat in mind, the typical range that we’re seeing is between 5% and 25%.

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Quantifying the Financial Impact of Post-Sales Services: Elevating Customer Success to the Next Level of Decision-Making

Valuize Consulting

As the popular saying goes ‘‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it,’’(Bolsinger 2015). In today’s competitive SaaS landscape, Customer Success has emerged as a vital strategic asset, driving revenue growth and long-term profitability. 355-398, DOI: [link].

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How to Scale SaaS Growth and Optimize SaaS Operations: 7 Essential Tips

Stax

Churn is the percentage of customers that end their subscriptions within a certain amount of time. Customer lifetime value. Often abbreviated to CLV or LTV, this is the amount of revenue generated by a customer as long as they have an account with your SaaS company. Customer acquisition cost.

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12 Benefits of Product-Led Growth for SaaS Companies

User Pilot

The value-first approach, which characterizes PLG companies, translates into greater user engagement and satisfaction. The latter two are often linked with higher customer retention , which goes hand-in-hand with higher customer lifetime value (CLV). It literally makes their lives better.

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Perpetual License vs. Annual License vs. Subscriptions

Baremetrics

Since 2013, Microsoft has released two new versions, Office 2016 in 2015 and Office 2019 in 2018. In order to get more money from their existing customers, Microsoft had to sell whole new versions of Microsoft Office, and discontinue the old version. Don’t ask me why those numbers stopped lining up!)

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The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO

Chart Mogul

in 2015 to €5.32 How much money do I make from my customers? Customer Lifetime Value (LTV). First of all, how long do customers stick around on average? We can calculate customer lifetime as: 1 / customer churn rate. Average Revenue Per Account (ARPA). TL;DR: ARPA is down from €6.84

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