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The Milestone: Users should use your product daily.
For every product, there is a natural cadence which determines the number of times a user is going to use the product. Generally, the higher the frequency, the better. In the report card, I have 7x per week because that’s a frequency that indicates a core user. What really matters most is that you find the level of engagement necessary for that user to retain d7/d30/d90/d180/d360.
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The Milestone: 65% of users should retain d30.
The simple math of organic user acquisition is that you need very high day 7 and day7->day30 retention to grow. A high (but achievable) bar is 80% for each. When you combine those, you get an overall d30 retention of 65%.
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The Milestone: Get a small number of users very excited by your product, to experience ‘the magic’ of the approach.
The magic is that moment when your user mentally puts together a big problem they have with the way your product solves it.
Typically, founders will ge...
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The Milestone: 10% of top of funnel visitors become paid users.
Conversion to paid can happen at very different points in time and one app may require a very different conversion rate than another in order to have a good business. For products with a trial, you want a very ...
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The Milestone: You need to grow payers by 20% MoM organically.
That seems a bit insane until it doesn’t. You won’t maintain 20% MoM forever, but you should during seed or you don’t have PMF.
One of the biggest challenges I see is that a founder in an interesting ...
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The Milestone: 80% of top of funnel users retain day 7 (i.e. come back at least one more time in the first week).
If your users aren’t retaining day 7, it’s likely that the smoke isn’t coming out of their ears, they never exclaimed ‘aha’ and all of the things people do when...
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The Milestone: Find a channel that can generate 1000 new users a week for you.
Before you waste your money, don’t do this with paid. Do the hard work to find out where they are and get the word out. That might be a set of working moms Facebook groups for an...
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John Danner of Dunce Capital created it as a way to track the progression of a startup from ideation to Series A. The stages are benchmarks for measuring product market fit:
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The Milestone: 80% of the top of the funnel should retain day 7. (same as magic, but now you are getting down in the dirt).
2 main components of activation usually result in the best chance of getting to that big hairy 80% d7 number.
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The Milestone: 65% of users should retain d30.
The simple math of organic user acquisition is that you need very high day 7 and day7->day30 retention to grow. A high (but achievable) bar is 80% for each. When you combine those, you get an overall d30 retention of 65%.
Your attention to your users should be insanely great, to the point of being obsessive. It is not only the product that should be that great but especially the experience of being your user.
For most successful startups, over-engaging with early users is a necessary part of the feedback loo...
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