Lifetime Value Calculation for Subscription Businesses

Wei Lin
Towards Data Science
7 min readAug 19, 2019

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It is so true that you cannot manage your business if you cannot measure it. One key metric for a subscription-based business is the Lifetime Value (LTV) or Customer Lifetime Value (CLV). In a nutshell, LTV means the total expected value generated over the lifetime of a customer. Let’s break this concept down further:

  • LTV is an expectation, which means that it is…

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Principal Data Scientist at openpath.com, researching and developing machine learning enabled smart access control device. wlininspire.github.io