You’ve built something people want. Revenue is growing. The team is expanding. But something feels wrong. You’re tracking 47 different metrics across 6 dashboards, yet you can’t answer the simplest question: are we actually on track? Lean analytics stages—empathy, stickiness, virality, revenue, and scale—provide the framework that reveals which single metric (OMTM) actually matters at
The official lean analytics stages—empathy, stickiness, virality, revenue, and scale—represent the five sequential milestones every data-driven startup must navigate, yet 73% of founders get permanently stuck at stage two because they misdiagnose their actual position. These stages aren’t just academic concepts from the Lean Analytics playbook; they’re the difference between a founder at $300K ARR