Ask HN: What numbers/metrics are most interesting to you for new startups?

Posted by alexpete on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @01:12AM
from the ask-hn dept.

When you read startups' blog posts, launch announcements, monthly checkins, funding announcements, postmortems, etc., in which they share their numbers, which metrics do you find most interesting and useful? Growth/retention rate? Website traffic? Revenue/profit charts?

Are there any metrics that don't normally get included in the standard rundowns, but which would be especially interesting or insightful? I'm thinking mainly of tech- and web-based startups, but this could apply to a broader category of companies than that.

( 2 comments | on HN )

Re:Ask HN: What numbers/metrics are most interesting to you ... by brudgers on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @09:32AM (#13471551)

If you're interested in this sort of thing, Trevor Blackwell's Startup Growth Calculator might be interesting: http://growth.tlb.org/#

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: What numbers/metrics are most interesting to you ... by alexpete on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @12:57AM (#13479008)

That's cool, thanks! I was more asking in terms of case studies and information-sharing. Trevor Blackwell's tool seems like it's more for the idealist/planning stage.

[ Parent | on HN ]