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Understanding the Scale Stage

The scale stage is the second of three stages in a startup's life. In this post, we discuss what product-market fit means, and then we look at healthy growth (the kind that leads to winning) and unhealthy growth (the kind that leads to company death).

Cedric Chin August 06, 2020
Inner Join

What It's Like Being a Growth Hunter Intern at Holistics

This is one of the #lifeatholistics stories written by our Intern graduate.

Oliver Lisardi July 31, 2020

Redash limitations and top alternatives

Redash is a good, popular open-source SQL-based BI tool that can be installed easily on local environment to get a simple SQL-to-chart functionality going. Yet as your analytics needs grow, you might face some pain points when using Redash

Khai To July 27, 2020
Using Holistics SQL Tips

How to unnest / extract nested JSON data in MySQL 8.0

In this article, we will demonstrate how to use the JSON_EXTRACT and JSON_TABLE functions in MySQL8.0 to convert JSON table into tabular data for analysis and reports, and also how to utilise it in Holistics for drag-and-drop reports.

July 24, 2020
Business Intelligence Business Fundamentals

Measurement Before Product Market Fit

A startup's first job is to create a customer. We take a closer look at how that affects the metrics you measure at the product stage of a startup's lifecycle.

Cedric Chin July 23, 2020
Business Intelligence

How Metrics Change When Your Company Grows

When your company grows, the metrics that matter changes along with it. Here's a look at the three growth stages of every company, along with the metrics that matter most at each stage.

Cedric Chin July 16, 2020
Business Intelligence Business Fundamentals

The Magic Money Machine Model

One way to get better at business communication is to learn the fundamentals of business. We explain Return on Invested Capital from first principles, written with the data analyst in mind.

Cedric Chin July 10, 2020
SQL Tips

How to unnest / extract nested JSON data in BigQuery

Working with nested JSON data in BigQuery analytics database might be confusing for people new to BigQuery. Yet if done well, nested …

Ha Pham July 02, 2020
Business Intelligence

Clearer Communication: How To Use The Ladder of Inference When Communicating Data To Your Business Users

If you work in data analytics, communicating complex information is just part of your job. Here's how to use the Ladder of Inference to get better at it.

Cedric Chin July 02, 2020
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