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DATA
DATA
DATA
Our lean mission is to determine solutions to must-have problems for sizable markets.
HYPOTH
ESIS
FOURSQUARE DEVS
Want venue hotness and venue ID matching for their applications.
HYPOTH
ESIS
DIGITAL AGENCIES
Want venue hotness and brand comparisons for their clients.
DEVELOPERS
Wanted detailed and transparent inuence metrics and rankings.
trstrank
HYPOTH
ESIS
DIGITAL AGENCIES
Want detailed and transparent inuence metrics and rankings.
15+
interviews later...
PROBLEMS
Thats not our market. Thats not a feature set weve ever built. Leverages stuff we know, but little of what weve built. Sends the company in a very different direction.
Learn from and measure what you already have. Diagnose whether to pivot or persevere.
Product
Optimization
Strategy
Pivot
Vision
You shouldnt dene where to pivot to unless you know why you should pivot.
3 Youve been experimenting and optimizing. 4 The experimenting and optimizing still has you short of your goals of creating a sustainable business.
Pivots are a change in strategy. The lean canvas provides a powerful strategy framework.
Lean is more straightforward if you start with it from the beginning. If you havent been lean, you must revisit the past.
data web
DATA SCIENTISTS
business analysts, marketers, consultants, economists, statisticians, etc.
DATA SCIENTISTS?
NO PROBLEM
Downloadable data sets follow a typical web ow
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MULTI-STEP
DEVELOPERS?
ITS COMPLICATED
API usage funnel involves many steps and is more difcult to track & dene
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new developer
new developer
active developer
A developer becomes active when they send over 1,000 API calls per month.
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howto guide code example api reference data set page search results
active user
PLUS
PROBLEM CHNICAL TE
We need to connect user activity on the website with user activity on our APIs.
SOLUTION
TO THE RESCUE
Web
Data
?
Web Data
VISITOR
SESSION PAGE
Visitor Variables
Username First seen at Segment Original trafc source Milestones Signed up Downloaded Searched Bought Queried
Session Variables
Milestones Signed up Downloaded Searched Bought Queried
Page Variables
Category Completeness Pricing Distribution
CUSTOM VARIABLES
Visitor Variables
c=201110;ms=dev;ds=1;sd=1;u=dhruv
First seen in October, 2011 (c) Is a developer (ms) Has seen a dataset (ds) Has done a search (sd) Username is dhruv (u)
Web
Data
developers
developers
developers
developers
The web teams goal is to increase the number of active API users. But we dont have a traditional funnel for converting these users.
IONING TRANSIT
to Lean
brainstorm
web experiments
http://twilio.com/user/account
thank you
@DhruvBansal @JimEngland @TimGasper