Sun.Jun 07, 2020

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Entrepreneurs, Cowboys and the ability to execute a plan

Innovation 2 Enterprise

By Scott Meacham. I often get the question “What is a typical day like working with entrepreneurs ?” My answer is short: There is no such thing as a typical day, and that is perfectly okay. I like it that way. The variability and unexpected nature of entrepreneurship is what makes working with startups and their founders so interesting, challenging, and fun.

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Measurement and Venture Capital

Continuations

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” goes an adage that is often recited as if it were some kind of profound truth ( misattributed to Deming ). And of course there is some logic here. Let’s say you own a website and you want to grow it. Measuring traffic to the site will help you figure out whether you are succeeding with that. But even this seemingly trivial example helps us understand a crucial point which could be summarized as “You manage to what you measure.