Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster - Softcover

Croll, Alistair; Yoskovitz, Benjamin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1449335675 ISBN 13: 9781449335670

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2013

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

Alistair Croll has been an entrepreneur, author, and public speaker for nearly 20 years. He's worked on a variety of topics, from web performance, to big data, to cloud computing, to startups, in that time. In 2001, he co-founded web performance startup Coradiant (acquired by BMC in 2011), and since that time has also launched Rednod, CloudOps, Bitcurrent, Year One Labs, the Bitnorth conference, the International Startup Festival and several other early-stage companies.

Alistair is the chair of O'Reilly's Strata conference, Cloud Connect, and Interop's Enterprise Cloud Summit. This is his fourth book on analytics, technology, and entrepreneurship. Alistair lives in Montreal, Canada and tries to mitigate chronic ADD by writing about far too many things at Solve For Interesting.

Benjamin Yoskovitz is a serial entrepreneur with 15+ years experience in web businesses. He started his first company in 1996 while completing university. In 2007 he co-founded Standout Jobs, a B2B software company in the recruitment space. The company raised $1.8M from venture and angel investors. In 2010 after exiting Standout Jobs, Ben co-founded Year One Labs.

Ben has been blogging since 2006. His "Instigator Blog" is recognized as one of the top blogs on startups and entrepreneurship. Ben is also an active mentor to numerous startups and other accelerator programs, including FounderFuel (a TechStars-like program in Montreal.) He regularly speaks at startup conferences and events, including the Michigan Lean Startup Conference, Internet Marketing Conference, etc.

Ben is currently the VP of Product at GoInstant, a venture-backed startup developing co-browsing technology for shared web experiences that was acquired by Salesforce.com in 2012.

From the Inside Flap

Whether you're a startup founder trying to disrupt an industry or an intrapreneur 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, monetize your business, and spread the word. Packed with more than 30 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

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1449335675
• ISBN 13: 9781449335670
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 437