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Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Why vanity metrics are dangerous In a previous post, I defined two kinds of metrics: vanity metrics and actionable metrics. In this post, Id like to talk about the perils of vanity metrics. My personal favorite vanity metrics is "hits."

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A full day of Lean Startup Workshops on December 4, 2012

Startup Lessons Learned

This year, for the first time, we've added a day of workshops and site visits to The Lean Startup Conference. We’re really proud to present the workshops, which we're holding on December 4, and we wanted to tell you more about them. We’ll talk about the cool site visits in a separate post.)

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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

That includes: Cindy Alvarez , author of Lean Customer Development , running a live customer-development problem-solving session David Binetti leading a workshop on innovation accounting for product managers Brant Cooper leading a workshop on introducing Lean Startup in your corporation Alistair Croll leading a workshop on demystifying metrics Laura (..)

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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

The supplier’s CEO directed his business unit general managers to take a SyncDev workshop. That earned us the right to ask questions of fact about their department’s mission, goals, operations, volumes, tools, methods, and success metrics. “How dare you,” the fab manager said. “We We shut down production to setup your machine.”

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Your Guide to the Complete Lean Startup Conference Program

Startup Lessons Learned

Talk descriptions, speakers, workshops, evening events, Ignite, Office Hours…but we’re getting a little ahead of ourselves. This year’s workshops cover Lean Startup 101; Introducing Lean Startup in Your Corporation; Lean Impact; Innovation Accounting; and Metrics: The Data That Will Make or Break Your Business.

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Minimum Viable Product: a guide

Startup Lessons Learned

In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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Generative AI – The End of Empty Textboxes

TechEmpower

This isn’t just our opinion - our startup metrics prove it! Do you participate in professional development workshops, or perhaps enjoy problem-solving puzzles in your downtime? Everyone struggles with empty text boxes. Populating them can be hard work, especially when the content needs to be just right.