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Benchmarks 2023: How We’re Doing

Chief Executive

They were eye-opening, to say the least—and obviously a lot more than we could cram into an issue of the magazine—so we put the full results in a new study, Chief Executive Group’s 2022 Financial Benchmarks Report for U.S. Net revenue per employee is another important metric to consider in this economy, as labor costs continue to skyrocket.

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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included!

Andrew Chen

2) Then, to identify potential upside based learnings from within the company as well as across benchmarks from across industry. Thinking about new user experience, engagement metrics, and other important concepts. The problem is that the Growth Accounting Framework provides for lagging metrics. There was a lot to learn.

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Missing the Mark on A Project? Here's a Way to Get Back on Track.

UVA Darden

These processes often involve comparing the projects current state to a set of reference points or benchmarks. Progressive Adjustments : As new information becomes available, leaders update their expectations and evaluate progress against revised benchmarks. Outcome Trade-offs : Leaders weigh potential losses in one dimension (e.g.,

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How to reinvent your product growth strategy for the tech downturn

Andrew Chen

During a bull market, the primary metric that people talk about is just top-line growth — what’s your year-over-year growth rate. One metric that’s been recently popularized by David Sacks is the “ Burn Multiple ” — he defines it below: Burn Multiple = Net Burn / Net New ARR. The new normal.

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The Problems With Incubators, and How to Solve Them

Harvard Business Review

Charles D''Agostino, executive director of the Louisiana Business & Technology Center at Louisiana State University, offers some analysis: "Incubators do work, but they must be more than a real estate entity offering executive suite services. Most incubators use funding as a success metric, which is a somewhat flawed criterion.

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What to look for when you’re hiring a Head of Growth

Andrew Chen

I often use benchmarks like D30 >20% or projecting out M12 to be >30% to try to assess this. Typically organic “pull” from the market combined with a scalable channel with reasonable metrics (CAC/LTV, or viral factor, or otherwise) going into in-app acquisition funnels. It should feel like it’s working.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business Review

Following the real estate metaphor, the PE company is less like a house flipper and more like a property developer: each separate home is designed, built, bought, and sold as an independent property. Though autonomous, they can improve their operating capabilities and speed up their time to reinvention by learning from each other.