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How do I work out CAC payback when I do not have a finance team?
Take everything you spent on sales and marketing in a period, divide it by the number of new customers you won in that period, and you have CAC. Th...
What is the magic number and should I care about it at my stage?
The magic number is how many dollars of annualised new revenue you generated for each dollar of sales and marketing you spent in the previous perio...
How do I calculate conversion rates by stage, and what do I actually do once I have them?
Calculate them on a cohort, not on a snapshot. Take every opportunity created in a month, follow that same set forward, and measure what share reac...
Do the classic SaaS metrics still work if we are an AI native company?
Partly, and the parts that break matter. ARR assumes a stable recurring subscription, but usage priced AI revenue swings with consumption, so a sin...