Statistics
Statistics
Statistics resources — 15 statistics for solo AI founders and bootstrappers: pricing, runway, stack cost, hiring, and growth decisions.
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Experimentation
15 A/B Testing Statistics
A/B testing statistics on win rates, sample size, and false positives, each taken from a named primary source: Microsoft's experimentation platform and a peer-reviewed review of A/B testing methodology.
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SaaS Metrics
15 Business Valuation Statistics
Business valuation statistics on SDE and EBITDA multiples, deal structure, and survival, each taken from a named primary source: the IBBA Market Pulse survey, the BLS, the SBA, and the Census Bureau.
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Runway & Cash Planning
15 Cash Flow Statistics
Cash flow statistics on cash buffer days, small-business survival, and financing gaps, each taken from a named primary source: JPMorgan Chase Institute, the Federal Reserve, BLS, Census, and SBA.
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SaaS Metrics
15 Customer Retention Statistics
Customer retention statistics on defection rates, retention economics, and survival, each taken from a named primary source: Harvard Business Review and Bain research, plus federal business data.
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ecommerce
15 E-Commerce Statistics
E-commerce statistics on online sales share, growth, and cart abandonment, each taken from a named primary source: the U.S. Census Bureau and the Baymard Institute's checkout research.
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Freelancing
15 Freelancing Statistics
Freelancing statistics on self-employment, nonemployer businesses, and remote work, each taken from a named primary source: the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Hiring Decisions
15 Hiring Statistics
Hiring statistics on cost-per-hire, time-to-fill, benefit loads, and labor-market turnover, each taken from a named primary source: SHRM, the BLS JOLTS and ECEC programs, and the SBA.
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Experimentation
15 Marketing ROI Statistics
Marketing ROI statistics on budget share, channel mix, and AI spend, each taken from a named primary source: the Gartner annual CMO Spend Survey of marketing leaders.
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Pricing Strategy
15 Pricing Statistics
Verified pricing statistics on profit sensitivity to price, new-product pricing failure, discounting damage, retention economics, and SaaS unit-price benchmarks, with primary sources.
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Operations
15 Productivity Statistics
Verified productivity statistics on interruptions, recovery time, meeting load, communication overhead, and measured AI tool gains, sourced from Microsoft, Gloria Mark's UC Irvine research, NBER, and a GitHub Copilot field study.
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Distributed Teams
15 Remote Work Statistics
Verified remote work statistics on how much work happens from home, retention effects, productivity parity, and where hybrid settled, sourced from Stanford WFH Research, a Nature randomized trial, and the Microsoft Work Trend Index.
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SaaS Metrics
15 SaaS Benchmarks Statistics
Verified SaaS benchmark statistics on net revenue retention, gross margin, CAC payback, ACV, and stage-by-stage performance, sourced from KeyBanc, SaaS Capital, ChartMogul, Bessemer, and Benchmarkit.
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Operations
15 Small Business Statistics
Verified small business statistics on how many exist, their share of firms and jobs, survival rates, cash buffers, and the no-employee majority, sourced from the SBA, Census Bureau, BLS, and JPMorgan Chase Institute.
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Runway & Cash Planning
15 Startup Failure Statistics
Verified startup failure statistics on survival rates by year, the real reasons startups die, cash-buffer thinness, and unit-economics failure, sourced from BLS, SBA, CB Insights, and the JPMorgan Chase Institute.
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Unit Economics
15 Unit Economics Statistics
Verified unit economics statistics on LTV-to-CAC ratios, payback periods, gross and contribution margin, retention value, and rising acquisition cost, sourced from David Skok, KeyBanc, Benchmarkit, ChartMogul, Bessemer, and Bain.
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