Whether you’re a startup founder trying to disrupt an industry or an entrepreneur trying to provoke change from within, your biggest challenge is creating a product people actually want. Lean Analytics steers you in the right direction.
This book shows you how to validate your initial idea, find the right customers, decide what to build, how to monetize your business, and how to spread the word. Packed with more than thirty case studies and insights from over a hundred business experts, Lean Analytics provides you with hard-won, real-world information no entrepreneur can afford to go without.
- Understand Lean Startup, analytics fundamentals, and the data-driven mindset
- Look at six sample business models and how they map to new ventures of all sizes
- Find the One Metric That Matters to you
- Learn how to draw a line in the sand, so you’ll know it’s time to move forward
- Apply Lean Analytics principles to large enterprises and established products
Alistair Croll has been an entrepreneur, author and public speaker for nearly 20 years. In 2001 he founded the web performance startup Coradiant and during this time worked on the development of the first open source web server for the Linux kernel.
Benjamin Yoskovitz is Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the Berkeley Computer Science Institute. He is also the author of several books on open source software development and open source computing.
Ben is the author of the instigator blog (instigatorblog.com) and speaks regularly at startup conferences. He is currently co-founder of GoInstant, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2012, and founder and chief technology officer of OpenStack.
