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How do we measure growth? Its a bit opaque (at least to me) how to evaluate the growth of an early early stage organizations where paying customers would likel
by carterschonwald 13y ago
How do we measure growth? Its a bit opaque (at least to me) how to evaluate the growth of an early early stage organizations where paying customers would likely be in finance, biotech, and governmental/university RnD.
I agree its a bit more manageable to evaluate in b2c /b2smb / b2b cases.
I guess its also for me, I've seen so many well publicized, brilliant technologically sophisticated analytical tools startups fail over the past two years, i'm just leery of how i've seen quantitative products "grow fast" too early.
But seriously, how does one evaluate technology that (when positioned well) becomes a substrate for core product strategy for other organizations and entire technological ecosystems? This is a question I hope to know the answer to this spring :)
- prawn 13y agoHow many contracts do you have signed? How many customers are you contacting and what feedback are you getting? There would be ways to evaluate progress.
- carterschonwald 13y agoindeed, but bloody hell is the sales cycle for mega enterprise and government slow! :) Also I wasn't asking about how YC stuff gets evaluated, but trying to understand what concrete specific concrete explicit reasons I should apply! I have applied to YC in the past, but in the past I also knew nothing of business, was a younger idiot and had dumb ideas! :)