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  1. Lean Analytics and Football

    Although Lean Analytics focuses mostly on tech companies, Alistair and I quickly realized while doing our research that the principles and tactics of Lean Analytics apply to many types of businesses. We managed to highlight a few examples in the book, including Solare, a San Diego-based restaurant that uses two key metrics to guide their [...]


  2. Lean Analytics Sweepstakes Complete! Big Winner Announced

    The Lean Analytics sweepstakes was a great event with thousands of dollars in prizes from a bunch of great companies. In total we’ll be giving away 56 prizes ranging from t-shirts to a free trip. Prize winners were selected at random. If you won a prize you were notified by Twitter or email, so please [...]


  3. Meet us in London for the Lean Analytics Workshop hosted by Geckoboard

    The folks at Geckoboard are awesome. They’ve contributed to our sweepstakes, where you can win awesome prizes (including a free trip). I did an extensive interview with Geckoboard’s CEO, Paul Joyce, which you can watch on Vimeo. And now, they’re hosting a 1-day workshop event for Alistair and I in London. The event is on [...]


  4. The 7 Myths of Lean and How Analytics Can Help

    I recently did a presentation on the 7 myths of Lean Startup and how analytics can help. You’ll find it embedded below, since I’ve shared it on Slideshare. It was a fun presentation, the first time I’ve given it (since I often redo my presentations each time!) and I got some great feedback. Briefly, here [...]


  5. Analytics Lessons Learned: Free e-book with 13 case studies

    The book is coming soon! It will be available in March from a variety of places. You can pre-order it on Amazon so you get it as soon as it’s ready. We hope you’ll do that! In the meantime, we wanted to share some great stories from the book (and some that aren’t in the [...]


  6. Lean Analytics workshop at the Lean Startup Conference

    Yesterday, Alistair and I did our first workshop at the Lean Startup Conference. The event itself was fantastic. I thought the content from the speakers was incredible. The workshop was a fairly deep dive into the content of the book. The process of converting the book to slides started with Alistair making nearly 400 slides. [...]


  7. An Introduction to Lean Analytics Webinar

    Recently, I did a webinar through O’Reilly on Lean Analytics. It was an introductory guide, covering a lot of what we’ll be including in the book. I got some great questions as well, which validated some of what Alistair and I have been thinking about content-wise for the book; where we need to include more [...]


  8. Get an Early Release of Lean Analytics Book!

    Last week we released a sneak peek of Lean Analytics, sharing a few chapters. Today you can buy an Early Release copy of the book! Buy it now >>> The Early Release copy in digital format means you’ll get updated versions as we write the book. The content will be fairly raw and unedited, but [...]


  9. Get a Sneak Peek at Lean Analytics Book

    To-date, Alistair and I have written a total of 43,964 words for the book. We’ve actually written a lot more, but we’ve cut a bunch of stuff, and put a bunch of stuff on the blog too. But the book right now stands at that word count. It’s a decent number of words. We’re about [...]


  10. 1,000 (How we’re validating the opportunity for Lean Analytics book)

    When Alistair and I first started promoting Lean Analytics, we set ourselves a target of adding 1,000 subscribers to our mailing list by the end of August. At this stage of promoting the book, the “Number of subscribers” is our One Metric That Matters, and one thousand is our line in the sand. Some might [...]