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Business Academy

Failed Payments

Failed charges are low hanging fruit for most subscription companies. The average early stage subscription startup is losing over $1500 per month to...

Business Academy, Startup Tips

Business Academy

Startup Insurance

Ah insurance. You’re on the edge of your seat already aren’t you? It may not be fun, and it’s about as exciting as watching grass grow, but having...

Business Academy, Running a Business

Business Academy

Office Space

You’ve got the product, the pricing, and the customers. Now it’s time to hang the proverbial shingle and get some office space right?! Well, maybe.

Business Academy, Starting a Business

Business Academy

Getting your first customers

So, you’ve got a product that you’re ready to charge people money for. Awesome! But how do you actually get people to start paying you money?...

Business Academy, Starting a Business

Business Academy

How to validate your idea

Validating your idea What is the best method to validate? You’ve undoubtably read a slew of articles on how to validate your business or product. Get...

Business Academy, Starting a Business

Business Academy

How to hire for your startup

Rome wasn’t built in a day, or by a single Roman! At some point, you’re going to need to hire an employee, or 5. But hiring can be hard. Where do you...

Business Academy

How to handle support at your startup

Most small startups avoid hiring for support as long as possible. After all, support folks don’t directly make you money or grow the business....

Business Academy, Marketing Success

Business Academy

How to price your SaaS

Pricing your SaaS Figuring out how much to charge folks to use your product is tricky. It’s kind of a dark art in a sense… you have to ask yourself...

Business Academy, Starting a Business

Business Academy

Looking at Metrics in a Healthy Way

Metrics, in and of themselves, aren’t terribly interesting. You’d rather be building your product or serving your customers than staring at...

Business Academy, Metrics 101

Business Academy

How to put together a startup retreat

No matter if you’re a 100% remote team like Baremetrics or a traditional team with an office, breaking from your typical day to day and really...

Business Academy

Price for the customers you want

Here’s the dealio. A $9/mo customer is an entirely different customer than a $99/mo customer.

Business Academy, Startup Tips

Business Academy

Company Perks

Tech companies are known for handing out a wide array of perks to attract and keep top talent. Free food, gyms, childcare, and more.

Business Academy

Stop chasing the competition

It seems every week there’s some new tool to “monitor the competition”. But here’s a little secret for you: the competition doesn’t matter. If you’re...

Business Academy, Startup Tips

Business Academy

13 actionable tips for reducing churn & retaining customers

Churn. The archenemy of any subscription company. No metric causes more sleepless nights or thinning hair. It’s the slow leak that regardless of how...

Business Academy, Marketing Success

Business Academy

Bulletproof system for getting new customers

Getting new customers can feel like some sort of level 10 black magic. There seems to be no clearcut way to just identify the people who want your...

Business Academy, Marketing Success

Business Academy

Stop trying to attain the perfect product

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late. – Reid Hoffman That Reid Hoffman quote…money. It will...

Business Academy, Startup Tips

Business Academy

Don’t wait to delegate

Most founders are some form of a jack-of-all-trades. With Baremetrics, for the first six months I did 100% of the work: UI design, marketing design,...

Business Academy, Startup Tips

Business Academy

Charge from Day One

You’ve undoubtably read a slew of articles on how to validate your business or product. Unfortunately…all of those methods are bogus. There is only...

Business Academy, Startup Tips

Business Academy

Slaying the Churn Beast

Churn. The archenemy of any SaaS company. No metric causes more sleepless nights and receding hairlines. It’s the slow leak that regardless of how...

Business Academy, Metrics 101