Yongyi WU

“If you want to do something and are good at it, but can’t be paid to do it, learn to monetize. If you’re good at something and can be paid to do it, but don’t like doing it, learn to say no. If you like to do something and can be paid to do it, but aren’t very good at it, learn to do it well.”
― Alistair Croll, Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster (Lean

“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, Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster (Lean

“Scarcity captures the mind. Just as the starving subjects had food on their mind, when we experience scarcity of any kind, we become absorbed by it.”
― Sendhil Mullainathan, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

“Whenever you look at a metric, ask yourself, “What will I do differently based on this information?” If you can’t answer that question, you probably shouldn’t worry about the metric too much. And if you don’t know which metrics would change your organization’s behavior, you aren’t being data-driven. You’re floundering in data quicksand.”
― Alistair Croll, Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster (Lean