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5 Interesting Learnings from Xero. As It Crosses $650m in ARR.

SaaStr

Aim for that at least in your SMB segment if you can, and if you can provide at least as much value as Xero. Customer Lifetime Value is 81 months, from SMB That’s impressive. That means an effective 81 month customer lifetime value from SMBs. This is a critical metric. and LTV is $2,398.

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. Average Revenue per Customer. Customer Lifetime Value (LTV). Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & MRR, obviously. Transcript.

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It’s a Rough Time to Be a Startup – Here’s What You Can Do About It

OpenView Labs

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Competition not only increases CAC, but it simultaneously decreases customer lifetime value (ouch!).

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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

Baremetrics

The company grew their total spend from $390k/mo to $750k/mo during 2018. You’ll need Cost of Revenue to calculate your Gross Margin, which in turn you need to calculate Customer Lifetime Value (LTV), Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) Payback Time and to understand your company’s unit economics in general.

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Retention Marketing: How to Build a Retention Strategy that Works

User Pilot

Retention is the principal factor behind Customer Lifetime Value (CLV). It’s easy to get hung up on sectoral benchmarks that ignore the huge variety of business types covered by a term like “SaaS” – which range from the incredibly sticky, such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, to services customers may only use rarely.

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It’s a Rough Time to Be a Startup – Here’s What You Can Do About It

OpenView Labs

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Competition not only increases CAC, but it simultaneously decreases customer lifetime value (ouch!).

Scale 69
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It’s a Rough Time to Be a Startup – Here’s What You Can Do About It

OpenView Labs

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). Competition not only increases CAC, but it simultaneously decreases customer lifetime value (ouch!).

Scale 40