Founders

what is considered a good + great + incredible growth rate for a startup?

founder of eventcaster (@event / events.xyz), hosting /latenightcrew, member of 🍊 dao

Adding a point on the retention side. Another valuable metric that matters for consumer startups is DAU/MAU, it answer how many of your monthly active users return daily. I think crypto is interesting in that the core metric you choose might not end up being active users but instead transaction volume because you're generating fees off of that. Sequoia does a fairly good job of breaking down the retention side:

Adding a point on the retention side. Another valuable metric that matters for consumer startups is DAU/MAU, it answer how many of your monthly active users return daily. I think crypto is interesting in that the core metric you choose might not end up being active users but instead transaction volume because you're generating fees off of that. Sequoia does a fairly good job of breaking down the retention side:

https://medium.com/sequoia-capital/selecting-the-right-user-metric-de95015aa38

one of my fav essays by pg: https://paulgraham.com/growth.html

good: 5-7% per week
great: 10% per week
incredible: 10% per day 

(I recall a practice yc demo day pitch by brian armstrong and pg asking what was the growth rate)