“This is the reverse Field of Dreams moment: if they come, you will build it.” — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
“Correlation is nice. But if you’ve found a leading indicator that causes a change later on, that’s a superpower, because it means… — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
“At the outset, you’re spending your time discovering what’s important to people and being empathetic to their problems. You’re searching through listening.… — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
“If you can’t find 15 people to talk to, well, imagine how hard it’s going to be to sell to them. So… — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
“While this seems relatively straightforward, finding a good leading indicator, and experimenting to determine how it affects the future of the company,… — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
“After all, you’ll be selling to people. You need to know how to reach them, interrupt them, and make a difference in… — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
“This is the reverse Field of Dreams moment: if they come, you will build it.” — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
“rebuilt its site to make it load quickly and reliably.[39] Ultimately, the makeover landed the site 3–4% more visitors.” — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
“Your job isn’t to build a product; it’s to de-risk a business model. Sometimes the only way to do this is to build something,… — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
“Getting paid is, in some ways, the ultimate metric for identifying a sustainable business model. If you make more money from customers than it… — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
“Scaling is good if it brings in incremental revenue, but you have to watch for a decrease in engagement, a gradual saturation of the… — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
“Qualitative versus quantitative metrics Qualitative metrics are unstructured, anecdotal, revealing, and hard to aggregate; quantitative metrics involve numbers and statistics, and provide hard numbers… — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
“In a startup, the purpose of analytics is to find your way to the right product and market before the money runs out.” — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
“First, know your customer. There’s no substitute for engaging with customers and users directly. All the numbers in the world can’t explain why something… — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
“If you’re going to survive as a founder, you have to find the intersection of demand (for your product), ability (for you to make… — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
“customers were so used to that price point that they were skeptical of ClearFit’s value at $99/month. Ben says, “We don’t compete with job… — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image