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> you should not be measuring your growth numerically so... how should you measure without numbers?

• calinet6 14y ago
  Ah, context: "you should not be measuring your growth numerically and targeting it weekly." My point is not that the measurement is numeric (of course whether it's numeric or not is irrelevant); it is that using a sum number on a weekly scale can limit your view, narrow your goals, and have the opposite of the intended effect.
  • zalew 14y ago
    > This is not what Paul meant, and I don't think it's what he would recommend. "During Y Combinator we measure growth rate per week, partly because there is so little time before Demo Day, and partly because startups early on need frequent feedback from their users to tweak what they're doing. [..] This is, obviously, only for startups that have already launched or can launch during YC. A startup building a new database will probably not do that. On the other hand, launching something small and then using growth rate as evolutionary pressure is such a valuable technique that any company that could start this way probably should. " "using growth rate as evolutionary pressure is such a valuable technique that any company that could start this way probably should." -> that looks like exactly what the 6% check is for - a simple tool to keep you motivated, not to rely your whole strategy upon.