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Startups, Avoid Being Vitamins At All Costs

The Product Coalition

In the end, we had great momentum on the deal size, but if we considered revenues as our KPI, we were at a standstill. Startups, Avoid Being Vitamins At All Costs was originally published in Product Coalition on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Data-Driven Blunders and how to Avoid Them

Mind the Product

You’ll travel far and wide before you find a tech startup that doesn’t pride itself on this claim. A North Star metric is the single KPI that works best as a proxy for success for your product and business. A single KPI that you know gives you an indication of success means you don’t need to dig in deeper into other KPIs.

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OKRs vs KPIs – Understanding Measurements for your SaaS Product

Userpilot

What are KPIs? KPI stands for key performance indicators , and they are a way for you to understand the performance against the key results that you have set. Let's tap into our examples again and look at how we might understand performance with a KPI example added: Real-world example: Objective: Reduce body fat %.

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5 App KPI Metrics that Product Managers Underestimate

The Product Coalition

Product managers are aware of the basic KPI metrics to measure for their mobile app, but there are a handful of underestimated KPI metrics that product managers need to measure as well. An important KPI metric to focus on here is the average time between each consecutive step.

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The Three True-North Metrics that Your Product and Business Need

The Product Coalition

In practice companies struggle with settling for just one top KPI, and with good reason. North Star Metric, One Metric, top business KPI?—?are these are the familiar Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Revenue, Net Income, Paying Customers, Active users, etc. In healthy companies the NSM and the top KPI are highly correlated?—?they

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Product Growth = People Growth by Nilan Peiris

Mind the Product

Define a KPI to track process. Build stuff and try to improve KPI. This can be counter-intuitive, as it means revenue isn’t a top priority in the short term, but in the long term it means the business will grow. How do you do this practically? Define the problem you’re solving. Build Conviction.

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Product Operations Dashboard

Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

Note that depending on your product and its usage interval, you might have to change this) Retention: 3/7/14 Day Monetization: LTV; Daily revenue per user, units sold, discount rate, unit ASP How to setup your KPI dashboard(s): Once you have done all of the above setting up your dashboard is relatively simple.