Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Most importantly, it’s now possible to have detailed analytics on exactly what’s happening to messages and ideas as they flow through word-of-mouth channels. Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 6, 2012

Yeah, I’m a big believer at being lean and to always practice continuous deployment. Spend 25% of your time on in-house analytics. We are using Google analytics, KissMetrics and a few other services. I cannot stress enough on the importance of prioritizing your in house analytic tools.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

They use customer development , split-testing , and actionable analytics as vehicles for learning about how to make their vision successful. They use customer development , split-testing , and actionable analytics as vehicles for learning about how to make their vision successful. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Startup 167

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Rashmi Sinha, co-founder and CEO of SlideShare , describes an early version of the analytics package that’s part of the Pro accounts the company announced today. “Individuals and small companies wanted analytics, they wanted to know what was happening in social media [for their content], they wanted ad removal and lead gen.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Analytics Continuous Deployment 167

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

San Francisco 168

San Francisco Product Lean Continuous Deployment 168

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

LIKED: Y startups fail, cont deployment vs waterfall vs agile, small batches & learn fr biz metrics #leanstartup As concise a summary as Ive ever seen. Trial and Error + Analytics? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. farazq : Awesome session @ericries. made a big impression. What else?"

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 60

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Because five whys kept turning up a few key metrics that were hard to set static thresholds for, we even had a dynamic prediction algorithm that would make forecasts based on past data, and fire alerts if the metric ever went out of its normal bounds. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

Software Review 167

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 167

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

In the process, we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system. And then we would use that simple analytics system I mentioned to monitor the conversion rates of customers from each campaign. You mention "we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system" Is tihs a commercial/open source systems.

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SEM San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 164

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

The risk of incorporating a bunch of brand-new volunteers is much lower if you have good analytics about their performance. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. The key is mission synchronization.

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