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

Occam's Razor

To win in business you need to follow this process: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act. We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. This should not be news to you. Online, offline or nonline.

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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. Great stuff. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video.

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Nine Webcasts to Learn From

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Our fall webcast series concluded on a high note with three extraordinary conversations about the origins and implications of Lean Startup. Our final webcast of the season was organized in response to intense interest from our community around Lean Startup in education.

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Time For Founders School

Steve Blank

These videos are not only great tutorials for founders but also provide educators another source of well produced and curated resources. 2:21: Accounting Metrics in a Large Company vs. Metrics that Matter in a Startup. Module 3, The Lean Method. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Post-Crisis Digital Trends That Will Reshape Your Business in 2020

Up and Running

Whether it’s better service, streamlined applications, or greater job curation, there are plenty of ways to disrupt this emerging service. Simply put, IoT is a combination of sensor and data analytics systems, helping businesses aggregate metrics to make more accurate decisions. Artificial Intelligence.

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The Lean Startup Bundle

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 5, 2010 The Lean Startup Bundle People often ask me if they can buy "Lean Startup in a box" from me. People want to get started with Lean Startup but arent exactly how. Its called the " The Lean Startup Bundle " and it is available this week only. Dont panic.

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Sales Forecasting: A Curated List of Our Best Resources

Up and Running

While we’re big advocates of the simpler, faster Lean Planning method, doing just a sales forecast is also an effective way to quickly validate your initial assumptions before writing up a business plan. You’ll also learn more about which SaaS metrics you should be keeping an eye on during the forecasting process.