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Forecasting and GTM metrics
Pipeline coverage, stage conversion, CAC payback, magic number, and calling a number you can defend to a board.
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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...
Which handful of GTM numbers should a first time founder actually track?
Five is plenty in the first couple of years. New ARR added this month, gross and net revenue retention, CAC payback, pipeline coverage for the comi...
How do I use CAC payback and magic number to decide whether to hire more reps?
Treat them as a gate, not a target. If your magic number is comfortably above one and CAC payback is under twelve months, the machine is returning ...
What GTM efficiency numbers are investors actually benchmarking us against right now?
The bar moved after 2022 and it has not moved back. Growth alone stopped being enough, and the pair investors now lead with is CAC payback and net ...