How to Improve Your Online Growth: Analyzing Your Trailing Velocity

Name: How to Improve Your Online Growth: Analyzing Your Trailing Velocity
Uploaded: 2024-05-05T13:05:40+00:00
Duration: 28 s
Channel: Jason M. Lemkin
Description: Jason M. Lemkin explains trailing velocity: measure your average growth rate and burn rate over the past three to four months to see who you actually are…

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Jason M. Lemkin explains trailing velocity: measure your average growth rate and burn rate over the past three to four months to see who you actually are right now. From that baseline, figure out how much you can realistically improve. The growth curve doesn't shift as much as you think.

First of all, you have to look at your trailing velocity. You have to look at your last 3 to 4 months, average the growth rate, average the burn rate, and that's who you are. Whoever, whatever you've been growing or burning last week, even if you want to be a different person, even if you don't like how you look, that's who you are, the average of your last 3 to 4 months. And that's your base plan. And then you have to calmly sit down and say, hey, if I don't like that, how do I do better? And how— and be realistic about it. You can only inflect a curve so much. If you, if you