This month, I stepped back from my full time role as Head of Analytics at Sestra to explore other opportunities. I’ve had more time to reflect on my goals, and I hope that this post might inspire you to take some similar steps! Reflection 1 – Take time to reflect (how meta). I’m the type…
Unicorn or Zebra: Redefining Success at Startups
As a founder, it’s important to know what success means for your company and how it impacts your financial goals, company culture, and hiring practices. Defining something as nebulous as success is intimidating, so let’s break it down. Do you want to be a unicorn or a zebra? To find out, check out this month’s…
9 Best Startup Analytics Tools to Learn
What are the most desirable analytics tools to learn? Let’s find out. For folks looking to build a career at a startup, I love Wealthfront’s Career Launching Companies List. Wealthfront considers attributes of different organizations that means there is a higher likelihood of landing in a role with upward mobility, and the chance to prove yourself.…
This hiring mistake still happens in 2017?
What’s in a name (on your resume)? One of my passions is helping people look for jobs at early, exciting startups. Whenever I hear that a friend is job hunting, I check in to see how her experience is going. One recently had a demoralizing experience that confused me enough to write about. Let’s set…
How people find out your product is awesome – User Acq 101
User acquisition can seem like a daunting task; heck, even the name is daunting. All “user acquisition” really means, though, is getting people to use your product. A huge part of this is helping potential users find your product. At Speek, we knew that it takes hard work to help people know that we are…
Watson Analytics at IBM World of Watson Conference
When I say IBM, you say … cutting edge machine learning? When they sponsored my trip to the 2016 World of Watson conference as a perk of my involvement in the IBM Predictioneers Social Influencer Program, I wasn’t totally sure what to expect, but I was pleasantly surprised with how advanced Watson and Watson Analytics…
Analytics Career Office Hours
After my last career focused post, the folks at Springboard invited me to participate in an office hour session for their students. In the session, Lewis King (Founder at Telligent Data) and I helped these students understand what types of analytics jobs are available. You can view that video below: Hit me up if you…
Analytics Jobs at Startups and How to Find Them
Since I started mentoring with Springboard, I’ve been reflecting on how the students might go about finding analytics jobs, and what exactly someone means when they say that they want to find a job with a startup. “Startup” means many things to many people. How big is too big to be considered a startup? There’s…
Lean Analytics: The one metric that matters
In a data-driven organization, setting metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) help drive your business forward. While knowing various metrics about your business can help you in different ways, I’m a big proponent of the Lean Analytics concept of One Metric That Matters (OMTM). A savvy entrepreneur (and hopefully, the entire team) will know at…
Quick Hits: The Hard Thing About Hard Things – War and Peace in Business
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers There are a bunch of business books that I want to read – and this one’s been on my list for a while, but they’re relatively expensive. But, I rediscovered the library! So I can read it for free. While…