Book · 440 pages
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster
Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz · O'Reilly / Lean Series Paid Intermediate
The book behind the "One Metric That Matters" discipline, which is exactly the mindset you need to judge whether a ship worked instead of drowning in vanity numbers. It ties the right metric to your business type and stage, so you know which signal to watch after a launch. Read it as the reference that makes the rest of this list make sense.
- Pick the One Metric That Matters for your stage and business model, and let it settle the "did it work" argument.
- Vanity metrics feel good but do not tell you a shipped thing is working: draw a line to real behaviour.
- Match the metric to where you are (empathy, stickiness, virality, revenue, scale), because the right signal changes as you grow.
