It’s December which means it’s time to reflect on the year and look forward to the coming year. Last week, I wrote about my annual retrospective and how I choose […]
How to Estimate the Expected Impact of a Product Change
Your design team is excited about a new signup process. They are convinced it will increase registrations. Your sales team keeps asking for the same feature over and over again. […]
The Ethics of the Data We Collect
Do you remember the uproar about cookies in the late 90s? I don’t mean the sugar-filled kind. I’m talking about web cookies – the bite-sized bits of information that your browser […]
Moving Beyond Vanity Metrics: An In-Depth Case Study
It’s one thing to read The Lean Startup and Lean Analytics. It’s another thing entirely to put these principles into practice. It can be a challenge to go from theory […]
More on the Facebook Social Contagion Study
There are thousands of news stories every day. More than any news publication or news hour could possibly cover. Car crashes, robberies, heroic feats, international skirmishes, sporting events, political battles, […]
What’s the Controversy Over the Facebook Social Contagion Study?
A lot of people are up in arms about a research study that was published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). I’m […]
You Already Know To Begin With The End In Mind. But Do You?
“It sounds like you need to define what success looks like.” This was such a simple statement. And yet, it had a profound impact on me. I was in my […]
Are You Getting Your Growth Goals Right?
In Monday’s post, we outlined our success funnel, identified our points of leverage, and explored a few ways you can set and hit aggressive goals. Some of you, the lucky […]