Product & Innovation

Lean Analytics

Startup metrics and the One Metric That Matters

Choose and audit startup metrics using Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz's Lean Analytics. This skill equips your AI agent with the discipline of the One Metric That Matters — separating actionable metrics from vanity numbers, matching metrics to your business model and stage, and drawing lines in the sand.

Lean Analytics by Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz

Lean Analytics

by Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz

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What your agent learns

Good vs Vanity Metrics

A good metric is comparative, understandable, a ratio or rate, and changes behavior. Cumulative up-and-to-the-right charts are the classic vanity tell.

One Metric That Matters

Track the single number that tells you whether the riskiest part of the business is working — paired with a counter-metric so it can't be gamed.

Metrics by Business Model

Six archetypes — e-commerce, SaaS, mobile app, media, UGC, marketplace — each with its own metric tree and definition of "working."

The Five Stages

Empathy, Stickiness, Virality, Revenue, Scale — each has a gate, and working on a later stage's metric too early is the canonical startup mistake.

Lines in the Sand

A metric without a target is trivia: set a number, a date, and a pre-committed response to missing it.

Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz

Serial founders, authors of the Lean Series data handbook

Alistair Croll is an entrepreneur and analyst who co-founded web performance company Coradiant and chairs Startupfest. Benjamin Yoskovitz is a founding partner at venture studio Highline Beta and a serial founder and startup investor. They wrote Lean Analytics for Eric Ries's Lean Series.

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Instrumentation

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Target setting

Install Lean Analytics

Free, open-source, and ready in 30 seconds.

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