Startup Metrics
Measure and evaluate your performance.
Revenue
Revenue refers to all money earned from regular business activities in a set period. This could be a Monthly or Annual reporting cycle.
Cash Burn
Net Cash Burn refers to the amount of money by which cash decreases in a set period.
Runway
Runway refers to the amount of time a business can continue to operate before cash runs out.
Cost Labour
Cost Labour refers to the total amount of money spent in a set period in order to employ staff.
Net New MRR
New MRR is monthly recurring revenue that comes from new customers.
ARPU
Average Revenue Per User shows how much revenue is generated on average by one account in a set time period.
EBIT
Earnings before Interest and Taxes is a measure of a firm’s profitability and includes all revenues and expenses except interest and taxes.
LTV
Lifetime Value is the revenue that a business receives from a customer over time before he churns.
Cash
Cash on Hand refers to the amount of money that your business has immediately available on the last day of the reporting period.
Cost Total
Cost Total refers to the total amount of money spent in a set period in order to generate value.
MoM (Month-on-Month Growth)
The rate of growth from month to month, comparing the current month or past 30 days to the previous month or last 31 to 60 days.
CCR (Customer Concentration Risk)
Revenue from the largest customer / total revenue.Customer Concentration Risk
CAC (Customer Acquisition Cost)
Customer Acquisition Costs are the marketing and sales expenditures associated with acquiring a new customer.
Daily Active Users/Monthly Active Users
Daily Active Users to Monthly Active Users Ratio measures how often your users engage with your product or service on average per month.
LTV: CAC
The Lifetime Value to Customer Acquisition Cost Ratio puts the value a customer creates and the costs incurred to acquire them into perspective.
Monthly Active Users
Monthly Active Users is the number of unique active users within a month. (logged in or performed an action)
Churn
% Customer/Accounts Lost.
Technical/Product
- Usage and engagement
- Customer support tickets.
- Service Utilization
- Customer Satisfaction / NPS
- Business Impact / ROI
- Use of support/training material
- Bugs reported vs fixed
- Product-Market Fit
- Engagement-to-Conversion Rate
Marketing
Key
- MRR by Marketing Channel
- Trial to Paid Conversion Rate
- Lead Volume
- Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)
- % of signups become paying customers
- % of first-time visitors to your website sign up
- % Click Thru rate (CTR) for ads?
- Market Share
Customers
- Total Customers
- New Customers
- Lost Customers
- Customer Engagement Networks
- Lead-to-Customer Conversion Rate
- Customer Satisfaction Score CSAT
Segmentation
- Pricing Plans
- Location
- Traffic Sources
Channel
By Channel: Visitors | Customers | ARPA | Revenue | Estimated LTV | Spendings | CAC | LTV/CAC | CAC Payback
Acquisition
- Free trials
- Marketing Qualified Lead
- Daily Events by Type
- Daily Active Users
- Referral Rate
Retention
- Monthly Active Users
- Paying users
- Retention Rate
- Trial to paid conversion rate
- User Retention by Cohort
Website
- Traffic from Organic Search
- Traffic from Paid Search & Referral
- Drop Off Rate
- Pageview per Visit
- Mins Spent on website
- Website Complete Refresh Cycle
Content
- Companies Using Content Syndication
- Webinar Attendance as a % of Registrants
- Whitepaper Conversion Rate
- Webinar Conversion Rate
- Outsourcing Content Creation
SEO
- CTR, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Result Organic Search
- Keywords
- Organic Search to Conv. Rate
- Largest Driver of Rank
SEM/ADS
- CTR – Google Adwords
- CTR – Google Display Network
- CTR – Mobile Banner Ads
- CPC – Paid Search
- Paid Search to RL Conv. Rate
- Lead magnets and referrals
Social
- Facebook CTR, CPM & CPC
- Facebook Conversion Rate
- Form Submits from Social Media
- B2B Promoted Tweets Eng. Rate
- B2B Promoted Tweets CPE
- Twitter Conv. Rate
- LinkedIn CTR
- Viral Coefficient
- Open Rate
- Click Thru Rate
- Click to Open Rate
- Unsubscribe Rate
- Deliverability
- Email Conversion Rate
CFO
Dashboard
- Gross Cash Flow
- Net Cash Flow
- Refunds
- Revenue lost to Discounting
- Non-Recurring Revenue
- Cash on Hand
- Cash Burn
- # of months until Burn Out
- Gross Margin
- Runway
- Payback Period
Performance
- MRR
- Total Purchases
- Refunded
- Churn Rate
- CLTV
- ARPA
- Total Customers
- New Customers
- Lost Customers
- Net Revenue
- Gross Revenue
- Transaction Fees
- Time to Value
Monthly Recurring Revenue
- New MRR
- Expansion MRR
- Reactivation MRR
- Contraction MRR
- Churn MRR
- Net New MRR
- Overall MRR