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We sometimes remind early-stage founders that, in many ways, they aren’t building a product. They’re building a tool to learn what product to build. This helps separate the task at hand — finding a sustainable business model — from the screens, lines of code, and mailing lists they’ve carefully built along the way.

Lean Analytics

Alistair Croll, Benjamin Yoskovitz

To determine how to win, an organization must decide what will enable it to create unique value and sustainably deliver that value to customers in a way that is distinct from the firm’s competitors. Michael Porter called it competitive advantage—the specific way a firm utilizes its advantages to create superior value for a consumer or a customer and in turn, superior returns for the firm.

Playing to Win

A. G. Lafley, Roger Martin, A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin

The modern world is completely ga-ga over data. Data is everything — it will sing magical songs to you. No, it won’t. Data analysis without hypothesis is just data mining. But if you use data — and the ever-increasing capacity to collect and process data faster — to refine, deepen, and enhance your understanding of your current room, you will be able to answer questions and frame new questions that will get you into the next room, and get there earlier. ... When these companies refer to *data* advantage, it is really a *questions* advantage. Only if you have a great question can you get a great answer.

What Strategy Questions Are You Asking?

Roger Martin

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