Comment by p4bl0
8 hours ago
Just in case, if there are others like me who where wondering what does "MRR" means, it seems to be "monthly recurring revenue".
8 hours ago
Just in case, if there are others like me who where wondering what does "MRR" means, it seems to be "monthly recurring revenue".
I'm just curious but is it the case that you signed up here 16 years ago and you didn't know what MRR means?
Not everybody who reads HN is well versed in business/entrepreneur oriented jagon.
HN means HackerNews btw, for those 15 year accounts that don't know the jargon
Yes. Clearly. But is the irony really lost on you?
I was also curious about that, I would've thought especially in 2010 the startup ethos would've been more prevalent on HN whereas these days it's more about AI and big tech.
Haha ^^'.
Honestly, yes. I'm on HN for tech content, I don't really care about startups and the business side of things, even though sometimes there are interesting reads on this side as well. Also, it may very well be the case that I rediscover the meaning of MRR for the second or third time in sixteen years :).
I'm jealous of you, like seriously, you somehow haven't worked at a company where a C suite says MRR like every 5th sentence in meeting.
Obviously they are lacking the sigma hustle grindset.
Its like not having syphilis or cancer, its a good thing.
They haven't also worked at a company where the meetings have MRR said like every 4 seconds. I'm so jealous of them
Says the guy with almost 5k HN comments in less than 5 years
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I was about to say: welcome to HN
There is also ARR which is "annual recurring revenue" and you should know that when people use ARR they usually are just making up numbers based on their current MRR (so lying). I've seen people announce their ARR after running their business for two whole months!
That's not really "lying" — ARR is usually understood as your projected "Annual Run Rate". It's a useful metric, as long as it is understood that it is an estimate.
But, in all honesty, all RR numbers are estimates. MRR is also a "made up number" from a certain point of view: it is not equivalent to cash received every month, because of annual subscriptions, cancelations, etc.
>But, in all honesty, all RR numbers are estimates.
Sure, but I would expect you to have at least one data point or at least near it, before making any estimates for that timescale. I don't see many people make MRR projections based on 2 days of of sales, it's just something I've noticed with startups and ARR.
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Rather than lying, I think of it more as financial dead reckoning.