Channel economics · The payback · Element

The cash effect

What the payback period does to cash.

The part

What it is

Growth through a long-payback channel consumes cash at a rate proportional to how fast you grow, which is why fast-growing organisations run out of money.

This connects directly to the runway work: acquisition is frequently the largest single call on cash.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.