Ask HN: What numbers/metrics are most interesting to you for new startups?

[alexpete]

When you read startups' blog posts, launch announcements, monthly checkins, funding announcements, postmortems, etc., in which they share their numbers, which metrics do you find most interesting and useful? Growth/retention rate? Website traffic? Revenue/profit charts?

Are there any metrics that don't normally get included in the standard rundowns, but which would be especially interesting or insightful? I'm thinking mainly of tech- and web-based startups, but this could apply to a broader category of companies than that.

[brudgers]

If you're interested in this sort of thing, Trevor Blackwell's Startup Growth Calculator might be interesting: http://growth.tlb.org/#

[alexpete → brudgers]

That's cool, thanks! I was more asking in terms of case studies and information-sharing. Trevor Blackwell's tool seems like it's more for the idealist/planning stage.