Innovation Practice
Braintrust: a format for powerful peer-to-peer mentoring
For three years in a row, the most valued session during the Rockstart Accelerator programs has been the Braintrust. Esther introduced it as Lean Mentor
Articles from GroundControl
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The Early Adopter from an Analytics perspective
Yesterday we had the first introductory session with a potential portfolio company and tried once again to explain why it is so important to focus
Innovation Practice
10 Lean Startup Experiment examples
An important part of Lean Startup is running experiments. Experiments turn assumptions into learnings. Learn and Confirm experiments There are two types of experiments: Learn
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Dig deeper to find the pain
In the first 5 blog posts about Analytics we covered Vanity Metrics, the Pirate Metrics framework, the criteria of a good metric, the key activity,
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Doing customer interviews: how to get to the actual value
This is Part 4 of our Lean Startup series. One of the most important tools or experiments you can do throughout the search for your
Measuring Innovation Teams
Cohorts: because averages hide the pattern
When I first started using good metrics (I was no longer focussing on vanity metrics like total registered users) I had a hard time wrapping
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Continuous experimenting in innovation
In the last post, I talked about the importance of validated learning. Trying to validate your way to a working business model. You don’t validate
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One metric to rule them all
If there is one thing important for startups, it is focus. The same applies to analytics. Startup life is chaotic enough and you can not
Lean Startup
Validated Learning: The ‘Build, Measure, Learn’ loop
In the previous post, I introduced the lean startup methodology by Eric Ries. He defines two phases in a startup. There is a Customer Discovery
Measuring Innovation Teams
AARRR — An analytics framework for startups
In the previous two posts we gave you an introduction to analytics, discussed vanity metrics and the criteria for good metrics. In this post we’d
Lean Startup
An introduction to Lean Startup: How it all started
The Lean Startup, Running lean, The four steps to epiphany, we have all read the books. We use the Business Model Canvas and build MVP’s.
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What makes a good metric?
Last time we did a short introduction on analytics. We explained that numbers that can only go up and to the right are called vanity
