This is so refreshing I feel like I am failing because I'm not communicating my value properly... So I can just work on that. I'm glad I'm not the only one who has faced this problem!
This is one of the most frustrating parts of starting something. Getting the idea out of your head and writing a clear thought sequence to where anon users know what you’re offering.
Introduction and Audience Poll - 00:00:00 About Mixpanel and Its Journey - 00:01:27 Top-Down Approach to Analytics - 00:03:07 Understanding Your Product - 00:04:09 Defining and Simplifying Metrics - 00:05:46 Actionable Metrics Formula - 00:08:00 Measuring Product Understanding - 00:09:36 Improving Product Usability - 00:15:55 Retention: The Key to Long-Term Success - 00:23:35 Simplifying Analytics and Choosing a North Star Metric - 00:35:21 Addressing Zero Users and Talking to Customers - 00:31:02 Conclusion and Additional Resources - 00:36:18 Q&A Session - 00:37:43
Hey guys, over the course of the talk, Suhail talks about the sharkfin effect and about how it reaches the critical number then it's very difficult for you to keep up. Exactly what does "keeping up" refer to in this context?
Very good talk and a lot of insights. One small suggestion for Suhail - if you had dropped 2 words from your talk, the entire session would have been 100 times more enjoyable - "Really" and "Awesome". It was a bit annoying to hear these words repeated so many times.
when will YC have someone present that didn't start their company at 20 in their dorm or parent's house when they had no real expenses, dependencies, health issues, etc. plenty of us are trying to do it as adults and YC never tells those stories.
I heard that. 40, bills, some debt, health is pushing it, no significant experience in my choice of startup but I get up early every morning and hustle :-)
by 20 yr old in their dorms i think u are referring to Doordash, Facebook, Dropbox. Apporva Mehta, Kevin Systrom, Jan Koum, Ben Silbermann are non 20 yr olds and not living with parents talk. Kevin n Jan were non yc. i think none of them had mortgages to pay because they chose not to. but when they started those companies, ppl usually take a hefty mortgage by that time of their age but i think they avoided those to stay lean. relationship wise, kevin and ben was pretty committed to their relationships back then with their girlfriends, and had to make time for them while running the startup. health issues is a tough one, i think i heard no talk about startup founder health issues, other than steve jobs :(
Does measuring your product, optimizing for the user experience as demonstrated by Suhail come before or after product-market fit? I feel as though the experience needs to be "not bad" enough so that the product is accessible even before finding PMF, but I'm not sure.
Well to answer your question lets run some analytics on it. First you have to follow a set destination or focal point, let's call it a north star. This will determine a variable of variables to dissect, funnel, and digest before being able to push out a firm pungent loaf or conclusion.
Numbers, numbers, numbers... Maybe when you get big it's important to optimize, but in the early days, it's much more important to build something that people want and be in touch with your customers (which this guy thinks is "tedious").
Thanks, but i think the same could have been possibly explained in less than 15 mins.. another aspect which is very important to make customer take faster decisions. Hardly any customer will wait for 1 hr to understand simple things !
this class is basically all you need to know where the ship is heading. In easy format and good flow of ideas
"it's really hard for the average founder to be focused on something boring... we get easily distracted" AMEN
Suhail is the real deal, the breakdown of what to measure was insanely elegant
This is so refreshing I feel like I am failing because I'm not communicating my value properly... So I can just work on that. I'm glad I'm not the only one who has faced this problem!
This is one of the most frustrating parts of starting something. Getting the idea out of your head and writing a clear thought sequence to where anon users know what you’re offering.
Introduction and Audience Poll - 00:00:00
About Mixpanel and Its Journey - 00:01:27
Top-Down Approach to Analytics - 00:03:07
Understanding Your Product - 00:04:09
Defining and Simplifying Metrics - 00:05:46
Actionable Metrics Formula - 00:08:00
Measuring Product Understanding - 00:09:36
Improving Product Usability - 00:15:55
Retention: The Key to Long-Term Success - 00:23:35
Simplifying Analytics and Choosing a North Star Metric - 00:35:21
Addressing Zero Users and Talking to Customers - 00:31:02
Conclusion and Additional Resources - 00:36:18
Q&A Session - 00:37:43
One of the amazing talks I have seen in a long time. No non-sense, oh I am so cool talk. Focused, insightful, and easy to understand.
But can you tell me how he arrived at 58 pc. Shouldn't it be 84 pc. At 29.16
Very helpful insights. Thanks Suhail!
Love the part where his employee asked him how his parents must be proud of him and he answered "Maybe."
Great vid. A shame the link doesn't work.
super useful one for everyone, definately for startups.
wow .. nice talk.. nothing can match somebody sharing his/her real life experiences
Great video, he is so eager to answer he kept on forgetting to repeat the question for us youtubers watching hahaha
Thanks for this.
Really awesome content.
Very insightful. Love his honest response.
At 29:16. How is it 58 pc? Shouldn't it be 84 pc??
Hey guys, over the course of the talk, Suhail talks about the sharkfin effect and about how it reaches the critical number then it's very difficult for you to keep up. Exactly what does "keeping up" refer to in this context?
Great video! Learnt a ton!
The link to view the slides is no longer working, is there any way to find them?
This was interesting. Thanks for sharing this information.
Big learn
Excellent
Very Informative!
16:30 that's a very nice product
Very good talk and a lot of insights. One small suggestion for Suhail - if you had dropped 2 words from your talk, the entire session would have been 100 times more enjoyable - "Really" and "Awesome". It was a bit annoying to hear these words repeated so many times.
You can add "um" to that list !
when will YC have someone present that didn't start their company at 20 in their dorm or parent's house when they had no real expenses, dependencies, health issues, etc. plenty of us are trying to do it as adults and YC never tells those stories.
I heard that. 40, bills, some debt, health is pushing it, no significant experience in my choice of startup but I get up early every morning and hustle :-)
by 20 yr old in their dorms i think u are referring to Doordash, Facebook, Dropbox. Apporva Mehta, Kevin Systrom, Jan Koum, Ben Silbermann are non 20 yr olds and not living with parents talk. Kevin n Jan were non yc. i think none of them had mortgages to pay because they chose not to. but when they started those companies, ppl usually take a hefty mortgage by that time of their age but i think they avoided those to stay lean. relationship wise, kevin and ben was pretty committed to their relationships back then with their girlfriends, and had to make time for them while running the startup. health issues is a tough one, i think i heard no talk about startup founder health issues, other than steve jobs :(
He asked when these older people are going to present. I would love to watch such.
@@faisalzone you really missed the point here
if I want to get the metrics, is that same as tracking the user activity?
Cool great awsome, that what I've learned
The slides are not there on the link anymore. Please add them or update the link to them
The lecture transcript link no longer works. Do you have a new link?
Does measuring your product, optimizing for the user experience as demonstrated by Suhail come before or after product-market fit? I feel as though the experience needs to be "not bad" enough so that the product is accessible even before finding PMF, but I'm not sure.
Well to answer your question lets run some analytics on it. First you have to follow a set destination or focal point, let's call it a north star. This will determine a variable of variables to dissect, funnel, and digest before being able to push out a firm pungent loaf or conclusion.
How many of you have zero users? Most of you? Awesome.
Snark aside, this is a pretty insightful talk. Awesome.
What does he mean switching from horizontal to vertical funnel? Any leads?
He means just how the data is represented visually.
Same data, same funnel, just horizontally vs vertically oriented.
link is broken
"Okay. Awesome. Alright. I'd say, majority of people have zero users right now. Cool. Awesome. Great." - Suhail Doshi
can't find the slides
Awesome, great! 😂
1-(1-0.07)^12=0.58 not very intuitive for an average person
Explain the formula please
Compound rate
Awesome great
Ok
How are you?
what does "wrote the first line of code" mean?
19:20
Numbers, numbers, numbers... Maybe when you get big it's important to optimize, but in the early days, it's much more important to build something that people want and be in touch with your customers (which this guy thinks is "tedious").
Thanks, but i think the same could have been possibly explained in less than 15 mins.. another aspect which is very important to make customer take faster decisions. Hardly any customer will wait for 1 hr to understand simple things !
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Mixpanel is extremely expensive - there are better, cheaper products out there so don't get suckered into it.
I'm bootstrapping can you suggest me a cheaper product pls?
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He sounds just like a copy cat but showing off as if he had real stuff
Awesome great