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Important SaaS Metrics to track at every stage of your business

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Organises metrics by company stage instead of dumping all of them on you at once, which is exactly what a founder tracking numbers for the first time needs.

  • It puts acceptable churn at 5 to 7 percent, roughly the SaaS average.
  • A net MRR growth rate of 10 to 20 percent is called reasonable at growth stage.
  • About 30 percent of revenue should come from expansion if you want to compound.
  • Breaks MRR into new, expansion, reactivation, and churned so the net number stops hiding problems.

The question it answers

  1. How do I work out CAC payback when I do not have a finance team?

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