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What Top Metrics do VC Funds Track After They Invest?

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Q: What are the top portfolio company metrics that VCs track post-investment? A related post here: What are the most important metrics for SaaS? The post What Top Metrics do VC Funds Track After They Invest? In practice, there are just a few: ARR. Where is the company in terms of revenue. Growth Rate.

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Lowering the Hiring (And Investing) Bar Didn’t Work

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The same things happened in VC and investing. I did some of this myself, both on people and investments. Better to do with fewer people, fewer investments, fewer initiatives. The post Lowering the Hiring (And Investing) Bar Didn’t Work appeared first on SaaStr. They just assumed it would come.

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I Was Wrong. NPS is A Great Core Metric.

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It created a lot of discussions and was more controversial then — that NPS was a great core metric. Back then, I wrote that when I was a SaaS founder, I thought Net Promoter Score (“NPS”) was a somewhat dumb, Big Company metric. I didn’t want a metric that was abstracted away from revenue. I was wrong.

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Most SaaS Metrics Really Only Work if You Have 75%+ Gross Margins and 100%+ NRR

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So over the past decade-and-a-half we’ve come up with a lot of yardsticks, metrics and rules for SaaS companies. E.g.,: CAC of < 12 months is Good-to-Great Paying sales reps 25%-30% of what they close is Good A burn ratio of 1 or less is Good These metrics do sort of work, if you have some capital to spend (i.e., They don’t.

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The Mindset of An Investor Today with Mark Mullen

Speaker: Peter Cowen, Managing Director, Sutton Capital Partners & Mark Mullen, Co-Founder, Bonfire Ventures

Join Peter Cowen, Managing Director at Sutton Capital Partners, with top VCs looking at the trends and perspectives on investing in today’s climate. Come join us for any of these sessions to hear from these top seasoned investors and get answers to these questions: How are VCs now looking at investing in the short term?

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10 of the Top Mistakes I’ve Made in Venture Investing

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Q: What are the most common mistakes people do while investing? My top mistakes in venture investing at least: Investing when I didn’t 100% believe in the CEO. No matter how interesting the metrics, even the product is, don’t invest if you don’t 100% believe in the CEO. Be careful about momentum investing.

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The One Question To Ask At The End of Every VC Pitch: What Are The Odds You Would Invest?

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— Jenny Fielding (@jefielding) October 17, 2023 So one of the parts I like least about investing is the follow-up. A few times a year, I’ll meet founders and a company I believe in so muc h, I’ll clearly offer to invest at the first meeting. Specifically, the follow-up when I’m not sure. That Almost No One Asks.

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The Mindset of An Investor Today with Minnie Ingersoll

Join Peter Cowen, Managing Director at Sutton Capital Partners with top VCs looking at the trends and perspectives on investing in today’s climate. Come join us for any of these sessions to hear from these top seasoned investors and get answers to these questions: How are VCs now looking at investing in the short term?

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The Mindset of An Investor Today with Ben Narasin

Speaker: Peter Cowen, Managing Director, Sutton Capital Partners & Ben Narasin, Venture Partner, NEA

Join Peter Cowen, Managing Director at Sutton Capital Partners with top VCs looking at the trends and perspectives on investing in today’s climate. Come join us for any of these sessions to hear from these top seasoned investors and get answers to these questions: How are VCs now looking at investing in the short term?

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The Mindset of An Investor Today - Arlan Hamilton

Join Peter Cowen, Managing Director at Sutton Capital Partners with top VCs looking at the trends and perspectives on investing in today’s climate. Come join us for any of these sessions to hear from these top seasoned investors and get answers to these questions: How are VCs now looking at investing in the short term?

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The Mindset of An Investor Today with Tim Draper

Speaker: Peter Cowen, Managing Director, Sutton Capital Partners & Tim Draper, Founder, Draper Associates

Join Peter Cowen, Managing Director at Sutton Capital Partners, with top VCs looking at the trends and perspectives on investing in today’s climate. Come join us for any of these sessions to hear from these top seasoned investors and get answers to these questions: How are VCs now looking at investing in the short term?

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Product Market Fit: A Lesson from Sephora’s Head of Product

Speaker: Sneha Narahalli - VP, Head of Product at Sephora

At least 3,000 start-ups receive seed investment each year. If the needs of your target audience aren't clearly defined, PMF, which combines qualitative and quantitative metrics, has numerous chances of failing. What metrics you should track to measure product-market fit.