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Scale
Building enterprise value, not just revenue
The six components of enterprise value beyond revenue, and the decisions during Scale that make a company valuable rather than merely large.
5 min readGrowth
The metrics that matter: CAC, LTV and payback
How to calculate CAC, LTV and payback honestly, with a worked example and the ratios that actually drive decisions.
5 min readGo-to-market
What product-market fit actually looks like
Five observable signals of product-market fit, why revenue alone is not one of them, and what to do when you have some but not all.
5 min read