Usage Metrics

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20VC Insight
Balfour: Product usage drives revenue, so teams must prioritize usage metrics
“Usage is what creates revenue. Revenue does not create usage, right? So you have to understand the usage of your product first.”
Brian Balfour Aug 16, 2023 ▶ 45:10 Brian Balfour: Startup Growth Secrets from HubSpot; Distribution Stratagies; Impact of AI | E1049 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Disclosure
Balfour: HubSpot grew by tracking user-level usage instead of account-level usage
“Like HubSpot, we had a customer, but we had multiple users on that, like customers account and to understand how to move, grow the business and how to grow the product. It actually wasn't about a usage metric at the customer level. It was about a usage metric …”
Brian Balfour Aug 16, 2023 ▶ 45:45 Brian Balfour: Startup Growth Secrets from HubSpot; Distribution Stratagies; Impact of AI | E1049 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Insight
Doshi: Product teams should track usage inputs rather than output adoption metrics
“Adoption is an end result of something else you do. So you're better off measuring those things, those other things. And that's where things like usage metrics come in or even health metrics come in. So usage metric is about how people are actually using the p…”
Shreyas Doshi Aug 3, 2022 ▶ 8:06 Shreyas Doshi: The 6 Product Metrics You Need To Know; The 3 Types of Product Leader | E913 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
a16z Insight
Casado: In consumer investing, the growth graph beats market theory
“And as a result, the investment community has kind of come up with this ethos around investing in consumer, which is basically, the graph is smarter than whatever theory we have about the market.”
Martin Casado Aug 9, 2019 ▶ 5:44 Growth, Sales, and a New Era of B2B

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