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by pkaler 4696 days ago
> Warning! The entire article is filled with arcane finance newspeak and obscure acronyms!

Boris Wertz is a SaaS/e-commerce investor. LTV, CAC, ARPU, churn, etc are pretty standard metrics for those types of businesses.

Here is a good guide to SaaS Metrics: http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas-metrics/

Here is Bessemer's SaaS Reporting Template: http://www.bvp.com/system/files/reporting_saas.xls?download=...

The Smart Bear blog has a good series of SaaS metrics articles: http://blog.asmartbear.com/?s=saas+metrics