How'd you come up with the name Kiss Metrics?

KISS stands for “keep it simple, stupid”. One of our investors, Dave McClure and I were sitting at breakfast and trying to come up with a good name. We kept thinking about how most product are so difficult, and eventually we landed on the KISS concept and it stuck! More info about KISS here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle

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