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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

This thought was in my mind as I was reading Lean Analytics a new book by my friend Alistair Croll and his collaborator Benjamin Yoskovitz. In this post, we’ll look at each of the four steps in the Lean Analytics Cycle in more detail. If it's the number of people buying, the metric is conversion rate. But it is not routine.

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Lean Analytics

Startup Lessons Learned

Lean Analytics is the latest addition to the Lean Series. If you're working on the Sticky Engine of Growth , you're focused on very different metrics from those that you care about in the Viral Engine of Growth. More people means adding users, ideally through virality or word of mouth, but also through paid advertising.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. Similarly, Corsis uses benchmarking data to understand technology spend patterns.

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The Superbowl ad test

Startup Lessons Learned

But notice what’s not listed: messages sent per person, churn rates of active users, or activation rate of new user. Is the company growing because of an amazing viral loop paired with a strong engagement loop? Is the company growing because of an amazing viral loop paired with a strong engagement loop?