What I’ve been reading this week.
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Product Marketing & Growth
Why early-stage startups should wait to calculate LTV:CAC, and how they should use it when they do
We often see founders making four key mistakes on LTV:CAC:
1) Calculating the metric too soon.
2) Hyperfocusing on the specifics of how it is calculated.
3) Not using LTV:CAC to drive business decisions.
4) Not fully understanding how it influences decisions investors make.
Sales
Everything I Wish I’d Known Before I Started Demoing SaaS
No, you will not think of it as demonstrating your product’s features and benefits. And the demonstrating may only take a fifth of the total “demo” time.
Strategy & Innovation
11 Types of Strategic Maturity: Which One Describes Your Company?
These days, most companies recognize the value of this strategic approach, but it isn’t always easy to get from today’s incoherence to tomorrow’s focused strategy. We have identified 11 archetypes, each representing a different level of progress along this path.
Startups
There’s a problem with SaaS startups and marketing
It’s impossible to find a marketing leader who checks all four of these boxes.
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