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The 6 Product Analytics Maturity Levels
Product Analytics

The 6 Product Analytics Maturity Levels

The most basic teams have data but don't know what to do with it. The most advanced ones have Agents making decisions for them. In between, there are many possible levels of maturity — let's walk through them.

Guido ManfrediFeb 23, 2026
How to read a cohort chart
Product Analytics

How to read a cohort chart

The 3 key reads of a cohort chart — horizontal, vertical and diagonal — so you do not miss any insight about your users' retention.

Guido ManfrediJan 5, 2026
How to choose your Tech Stack based on your business stage
Data Stack

How to choose your Tech Stack based on your business stage

We walk through the key questions that come up at each business stage and the optimal MarTech stack you should consider — from Early Stage to Enterprise.

Tomás GurovichDec 10, 2025
Product Analytics

The complete guide to event & property taxonomy

How to name events, event properties and user properties consistently — and the mistakes to avoid so your data stays reliable.

Guido ManfrediJun 12, 2025
Mixpanel + OneSignal: 5 key analyses to improve retention, traffic and conversions
Product Analytics

Mixpanel + OneSignal: 5 key analyses to improve retention, traffic and conversions

Using this integration smartly lets you understand the real impact of your Email and Push Notification campaigns and make better growth decisions.

Eze VillanuevaMay 21, 2025
Product Analytics

Are you using A/B tests to improve your product or your comms?

A step-by-step framework to run an A/B test the right way — from hypothesis to final statistical analysis.

Eze VillanuevaMay 10, 2025
How to integrate Mixpanel the right way: best practices and common pitfalls
Product Analytics

How to integrate Mixpanel the right way: best practices and common pitfalls

After implementing Mixpanel with 80+ clients across LatAm, we put together the lessons that matter: planning, ingestion architecture, user identification, and the server-side tracking most teams get wrong.

Eze VillanuevaMay 7, 2025
Business plan: how to model your business
Product Analytics

Business plan: how to model your business

Learn how to model your business, identify the key variables, and project them to build a solid annual plan.

Guido ManfrediFeb 10, 2025
How do I grow traffic from my recurring users?
Lifecycle CRM

How do I grow traffic from my recurring users?

Unblock recurring-user growth in 3 simple steps: break it down into variables, run initiatives, and measure.

Guido ManfrediDec 4, 2024
Product Analytics

How to plan your Product Analytics implementation (before your dev team writes a single event)

After rolling out Mixpanel with 50+ startups across LatAm, the pattern is clear: teams that skip the planning phase pay for it later in messy data, broken metrics, and zero trust in dashboards. Here's the framework we use to prevent it.

Tomas GurovichMay 30, 2024
Cart Abandonment: The Questions You Should Be Asking (and How to Answer Them with Mixpanel)
Product Analytics

Cart Abandonment: The Questions You Should Be Asking (and How to Answer Them with Mixpanel)

Half your carts get abandoned. Now what? A practical guide to using Mixpanel funnels to understand why users leave their carts behind.

Tomás GurovichMay 9, 2024
How to build your Metric Tree step by step
Product Analytics

How to build your Metric Tree step by step

Learn how to build your Metric Tree to identify which variables drive deviations — and fix them as fast as possible.

Guido ManfrediMar 30, 2024
Predict Churn

Before investing $$$ in acquiring users, save money by investing in reducing their churn rate

If your product is leaking hundreds of users, it's smart to know WHY before spending more on acquisition. Here's how investing in a Customer Engagement Platform pays for itself.

Tomás GurovichAug 14, 2023