Cosi 165a - IT Entrepreneurship
Cohort Analysis
What is Cohort Analysis?
A metrics analysis technique
Look of metrics of separate groups of users or customers
Surgically measure the impact of changes, pivots, and experiments
Role in a startup
Just another tool
Key to avoiding vanity metrics and devloping actionable metrics
Look at the lifetime a customer and identify key stages
Make sure the stages can be measured and are associated with a specific user
Make sure that they are meaninful to the business and the engine of growth
Measure a baseline with current product
Changes can now be measured to see if they had desired impact
Step-by-step:
Identify key stages of relatioship with customer, e.g. Register, Activate, Retain, Refer, Pay, Cancel
Measure customers at each stage
Analyze impact on financial model
Simple example (on whiteboard)
Micro-Instagram
Install app
Create an account
Activate account
Post a photo
More detailed example
Review
Engine of Growth Example
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