If you're involved with a startup, analytics help you find your way to the right product and market before the money runs out. But with a flood of information available, where do you start? This book shows you what to measure, how to analyze it, and how to report it, whether you're evaluating your business model, testing new features, enticing investors, or reporting progress to advisers. Written by Alistair Croll (founder of Coradiant) and Ben Yoskovitz (co-founder of Year One Labs), Lean Analytics lays out practical, proven steps to take your startup from initial idea to product/market fit and beyond. Examples and case studies show entrepreneurs and intrapreneneurs (entrepreneurs inside larger organizations) how to identify and measure a startup's single most important metric, and how to iterate until you get it right. While the authors primarily cover technology startups, their lessons can be applied far beyond the Web. Even traditional businesses are embracing a lean, learn-first approach, as demonstrated by owners of a San Francisco deli that used a temporary "pop-up" method to optimize their menu and operations before launching a permanent restaurant.

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企业家、作家、演讲家，用户体验管理先锋公司Coradiant联合创始人。曾花大量时间研究各种规模的组织如何使用数据做出优良决策、加速创业过程。他职业生涯的大部分时间都是技术公司的产品经理，是O'Reilly Strata、TechWeb Cloud Connect、Interop企业云计算峰会、International Startup Festival（国际创业节）等5个国际知名技术大会的主要发起人。

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目前担任广受欢迎的二手货买卖应用VarageSale（http://varagesale.com）产品管理副总，主要负责Web和移动平台的产品开发。他是Standout Jobs和Year One Labs公司联合创始人，曾积极指导众多创业公司和其他加速器项目。他创办了以精益创业、产品管理、创业公司和企业家精神为主题的博客Instigator Blog（http://www.instigatorblog.com），并定期在创业会议上演讲。他也是天使投资人、连续创业者，具有15年以上的互联网产品运营经验。