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Ilya Volodarsky - Analytics for Startups
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Startups can use tools to measure metrics and drive product market fit, optimize team operations, and improve product usability.

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    00:00
    Segment provides insights into what tools startups use to measure metrics and drive product market fit.
    • Segment is an analytics API that provides insights into what tools startups use to measure primary and secondary metrics.
    • Metrics are used to drive product market fit, focus teams, and set goals for engineering and marketing teams.
    • We discussed the funnel, data collection, top 3 metrics, product market fit methodology, and tool recommendations to help with the product market fit journey.
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    02:35
    Track user behavior and monetization metrics by instrumenting tracking in web/mobile apps and analyzing cohort data.
    • Track acquisition, engagement, and monetization by taking a cohort of users and tracking their usage and revenue week over week.
    • Instrument tracking in web/mobile apps to collect data, and use event properties to answer questions about user behavior and derive monetization metrics.
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    04:23
    Track acquisition and retention metrics to measure product market fit and optimize team operations.
    • Analytics tools such as Amplitude and Mixpanel can be used to measure acquisition metrics such as signups per week, organic users, and invite type.
    • Set a metric and goal, track progress daily, and use data to drive team operations.
    • Retention to cohorts measures the percentage of users that continue to use a product over time, with a goal of 20-30%.
    • Products without product market fit tend to go to zero, while those with product market fit retain users over time.
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    07:51
    Create a dashboard with analytics to measure product improvement, synthesize business metrics into an email, and use tools to help with the tactical process of setting up metrics.
    • Mixpanel and Amplitude have reports to create a graph showing user retention, value events, and revenue over time to measure product improvement.
    • Having a TV dashboard with analytics is essential for data-driven teams to scale and build high performance companies.
    • Synthesize your business metrics into an email and send it to advisers to get appropriate advice and use tools to help with the tactical process of setting up metrics.
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    10:36
    Launch quickly to test product-market fit and scale when you find it.
    • When customers start pulling at you for features and fixes, it's a sign of product market fit.
    • Launch quickly to test product-market fit and scale the company when you find it.
    • Install Google Analytics and Amplitude to track user engagement, use a data warehouse to democratize data, and set up open channels of communication to get valuable feedback.
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    12:56
    Implementing tools like Full Story, 43 minute founder emails, and Customer IO can help improve product usability and metrics.
    • Almost every product needs to improve usability for the first three months, and tools can help with this.
    • Full Story helps you observe customer sessions to identify issues and improve metrics.
    • Segment co-founders implemented a 43 minute founder email which has resulted in hundreds of thousands of responses since 2013, and Customer IO can be used to automate this process.
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    15:28
    Early-stage startups can now get free tools to accelerate their product market fit process, but the growth rate needed depends on the product.
    • Don't spend too much time picking the perfect tool, as both Amplitude and Mixpanel will give the same result at your stage.
    • Switch best-in-class tools every two years and use Google Analytics and Amplitude for MVP process.
    • We used Google Spreadsheets, emails, Github, and AWS to host our products when we were starting out due to lack of money.
    • Early-stage startups can now get free tools to accelerate their product market fit process, but the growth rate needed to make growth meaningful depends on the product.
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    19:44
    Retention periods depend on the company, but for Airbnb it would be at least once a month or once a quarter.
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Ilya Volodarsky - Analytics for Startups
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