How KISSMetrics Uses The Lean Startup Philosophy – with Hiten Shah

Hiten Shah, KISSmetrics, Customer Acquisition, Failure, Mixergy Fan, Outsourcing, Scaling, System

Hiten Shah wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on past business ideas (and you can in this video how painful those losses are to him).

Then he discovered the lean startup approach to product development and everything changed. At his latest company, KISSMetrics, development is faster, cheaper and tightly connected to what customers really want.

In this program Hiten reveal the mistakes that he made before he discovered the lean startup concepts. (I bet you’ll see your own decisions in many of the mistakes he describes.) And he’ll show you how to implement the lean startup philosophy, step-by-step.

Hiten Shah

KISSmetrics

Hiten Shah is CEO and Co-Founder of KISSmetrics, an analytics company that gives web-based businesses actionable metrics. Previously he started Crazyegg and ACS.

 

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