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  1. Guest post: Vanity Celebrations

    Brydon Gilliss founded the shared office space ThreeFortyNine in Guelph where he plays with Startupify.Me, Ontario Startup Train and 20 Skaters. A serial entrepreneur and fervent community builder, he’s also busy organizing a train-full of founders for this summer’s International Startup Festival. One of the most often-repeated themes from Lean Analytics has been this: If a metric [...]

  2. SXSW, bikes, and the Zen of finding things out

    This is a really long post. It’s overly personal. It’s a bit of a travel triptych. But if you read through it, I hope you’ll find that there’s an important lesson in here for entrepreneurs. I was in Austin for SXSW this year. It was my first time there—I’ve always had some other event to [...]

  3. Startup Metrics Toronto 2013

    Last week, Paul Dowman launched the Toronto Startup Metrics Meetup. It was a great chance to talk Lean Analytics with dozens of founders and analysts in the city, and the Bitmaker Labs offices were the perfect venue for the evening event. Here are the slides, for those who asked. Startup metrics toronto March 19 from [...]

  4. Fast boat, fast river

    Paul Graham has a simple definition of a startup: an organization designed to grow fast. Steve Blank adheres to a different one: an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. They’re both right, in a way. And that has important implications for entrepreneurs Many people think a startup is a small [...]

  5. Siliconangle at Strata

    Last week was Strata, O’Reilly’s conference on Big Data, ubiquitous computing, and new interfaces. While most of the discussion focused on the event itself—and the widespread adoption of Big Data—I got a chance to talk Lean Analytics with the Silicon Angle crew who were covering the event.

  6. An intro to Lean Analytics at GROWTalk Montreal

    The Montreal GROWTalk event is a pretty packed lineup, with each speaker only having 20-30 minutes to explain a few aspects of their business or idea. I’m presenting a quick introduction to Lean Analytics, before heading off to Superconf the following day for a workshop. Here are the slides from the event.

  7. The Lean Gates of Analytics

    You don’t know what book you’re writing until you’ve written it. As most authors will tell you, the act of writing a book—particularly on a fast-changing, widely-discussed topic—is both a creative and a destructive one. You don’t know how little you know until you start to structure your thoughts. As Ben and I have been [...]

  8. What’s in a name?

    As we’ve shared the idea of Lean Analytics, we’ve obsessed—as most authors do—with naming. When I co-wrote Complete Web Monitoring a few years ago, I talked to a friend of mine, author Mitch Joel, about its initial name: Watching websites. Ultimately, my co-author Sean and I decided that name would be misinterpreted as a book on online video [...]

  9. Buyer Mindsets: Understanding How Customers Buy

    As we write the book, there’s plenty we’re not including. For example, there are several things that affect what metrics you should look at: the kind of company you are, the stage you’re at, your audience, and how your buyers think about their purchases. But rather than go into detail on all of these, we’re [...]

  10. The Lean Hair Salon

    Yesterday, I had an interesting conversation with, of all people, my hairdresser. Those who know me realize there isn’t much hair to dress, so it was an unusual event to begin with. As it turns out, she’s just bought a one-person barbershop and this was her last week at her current employer’s shop. In hushed tones, [...]

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