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How to Measure Your Product by Suhail Doshi

Startup School by Y Combinator

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The One Thing I Wish I Had Done Back in the Day

One of the biggest mistakes that people make with analyticsi is being really over complicated. No matter how much you slice in dice and segment the data, no matter how mathematical you are about it, you will never get as much information and int in building your own intuition a then just talking to customers. I think less is more, and just stay there. It's totally fine to have numbers that you wish to monitor, but don't focus on them aso. If we need things that are humans, just need to simplify things. So i'd pick one north star metric. And an anort star metric i would choose in this case is, like, what is a number that you're

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