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Is funding and exits how we measure success now?

• ChuckMcM 12y ago
  Do you have an alternative metric? I suppose we could count jobs created. My experience in the Bay Area is that as long as exits >> (funding * 2), it means that there are non-investors making some money and going on to create additional opportunities (sort of the criticality threshold for entrepreneurism).
  • FLUX-YOU 12y ago
    Number of customers? Years in business? Profitable quarters? Going from startup to long-term business? Uhh, military contracts awarded? (okay, maybe not..) Are the majority of startups only ever going to be short term ventures?
• pcarolan 12y ago
  Don't forget that Bootstrapping is all but religion here in Chicago. http://37signals.com/rework/ http://37signals.com/rework/
• encoderer 12y ago
  Funding? No. Exits? Yes.