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

#1

Post by alexpete » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 6:12 AM UTC

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.

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

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Post by brudgers » Tue, Jan 24, 2017, 2:32 PM UTC

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

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

#3

Post by alexpete » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 5:57 AM UTC

brudgers wrote: post #2

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

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.