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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. 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 [...]

  3. 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 [...]

  4. 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 [...]

  5. 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 [...]

  6. 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 [...]

  7. 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 [...]

  8. 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.

  9. 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 [...]

  10. 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 [...]

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