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Cohort Analysis: A (practical) Q&A [Guest Post]

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My colleague Nicolas wrote a great guide with tips and tricks on how to do cohort analyses which I'd like to share with the readers of this blog. Thanks, Nicolas, for allowing me to guest publish it here. Without further ado, here it is! - - - - - - - - - - At Point Nine we believe that the only way to get a real sense of user retention and customer lifetime is doing a proper cohort analysis. Much has been said and written about them and Christoph has a published a great template and guide on the topic if the concept is new to you. With this Q&A I want to focus on some of the more practical questions that might arise when you are actually implementing a cohort analysis for your startup. After close to two years of working with SaaS companies and doing numerous of these analysis I have learned that in most cases there is no perfect step-by-step procedure. But although you will always have to do some customisation for a cohort analysis to perfectly fit your business, ...