Want To Raise A Million Bucks? Here’s What You’ll Need

  There's one more thing that obviates the need for traction:
  social proof. If Marc Andreessen is investing in your
  round, the round will get done, it doesn't matter what your 
  product, traction, team or technology look like.
  
  To raise money, you really only need to be exceptional in
  one of these categories (product, team, traction, social 
  proof).
  
  Since everyone thinks they're exceptional, here is some 
  calibration by way of analogy: it is the equivalent of 
  getting into Harvard or getting 1600 on your SATs. That's 
  the bar to get funded. The bar for success is 1000x higher.

A good growth rate during YC is 5-7% a week. If you can hit 10% a week you're doing exceptionally well.

[http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html]

If you haven't read this article already, go read it now!

That being said, we closed $750K in my last startup after crossing 125K users, so perhaps traction is good enough at least for the first round.

On one hand 100K signups/download seems to be easier to achieve than $50K rev/mon but on the other hand if my e-comm product sells for $5000 each that seems easier too.

Nevertheless interesting metrics!