Founders Journey

One year ago today I was sitting in my office at home racking my brain trying to find some easier way to get the metrics I wanted for 2 SaaS companies I was running. Nothing I found fit the bill. So,...

Over the past year of building Baremetrics, something we've found to be critical of improving your metrics is having your entire team on board and focused on the same goals. The more your team can...

One of the hardest parts of running a business (especially a new one) is knowing if you're even starting to maybe possibly sort of kind of head in the right direction with your metrics. My LTV is...

It’s a really exciting day here at Baremetrics! I’m stoked to announce that General Catalyst has invested $500,000 in Baremetrics, as part of a new fund they’ve created for businesses on Stripe. What...

Since launching 10 months ago, Baremetrics has largely taken a high-level approach to your metrics, showing you a 40,000-foot view of how your business is doing financially. Today, we’re bringing...

Dave and Jared started Hubstaff nearly two years ago and have finally started getting some traction on revenue. They manage a team of over a dozen folks to help build their business and have...

A couple of years back, Tyler Tringas spotted a need while doing freelance work building tools for Shopify merchants. Many of his clients wanted a store locator on their site to show their customers...

July was a solid “heads down getting junk down” month for us. If we want to get geeky for a minute, we had over 200 code commits and added some 5,000 new lines of code. Yay vanity metrics! In...

Busy morning here at Baremetrics International National Regional Local City Worldwide Headquarters. Got a few tasty treats for your enjoyment! We've just pushed live a few features and tools to help...

Recently, I sent out a Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey to all Baremetrics users. I was hesitant at first but it quickly surfaced the areas where we were really excelling as well as areas we needed to...

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could find out exactly what went in to your revenue growth (or decline)? Well hot dog, now you can! We just launched a new “Monthly Recurring Revenue Growth” chart that...

June was equal parts exciting and a let down. It was a splash in the face with a bucket of cold water compared to months-on-end of insane growth. Let’s take a look at both the good and the...

When you’re a brand new business, churn is generally something you don’t need to worry about. Or rather, there are probably bigger wins than trying to

A couple of months ago Baremetrics had an absurd amount of growth, adding $5,000 in new monthly recurring revenue (MRR) for a revenue increase of nearly

Everyone's got clever names for positions within their company, so why not jump on the bandwagon, right? We're hiring an Agent of Awesome here at

I have a confession: until I launched Baremetrics, looking at and making sense of metrics was about as fun as eating a jar of mayonnaise. It was

Having spent the better part of a decade building various businesses (B2B, B2C, e-commerce, digital goods, SaaS), I’ve found there are a number of

May was a month focused primarily on scaling. It’s the first month since launching that I haven’t launched a feature or done some big marketing push, but

Pricing products is hard. It's one of the most difficult decisions you'll make when creating any type of product (SaaS or otherwise), as there's no "easy"

Hot on the heels of last week's Startup Chat, this week we talked about pricing, free plans and trials and had all sorts of fun. I tried hard to keep this

Today I ran a little experiment with doing a live Q&A (that I called "Startup Chat") with other entrepreneurs/startups. At any given time there were

So it's now been a week since we launched the Buffer/Baremetrics partnership where Buffer opened up their Baremetrics account for all the world to see.

What. A. Month. April was huge for Baremetrics. So many great things. Our best month across the board. So, let's jump right in to the juicy bits. Revenue

A few weeks ago I was at MicroConf, and on the way to dinner, Hiten Shah (co-founder of KISSmetrics) and I were talking about how the demo for Baremetrics

How do you go from "no one on earth knows I exist" to "dozens of people I don't know are now giving me a chunk of change on a monthly basis"? That's the ultimate question, right? Because answering...