-- there is quite a lot of data about existing markets that are differentiated into cheaper, better and niche and new markets. How do you think is market significant. I am happy run a few tests for you :)
-- We measure success based on the consistency of how someone moves through a certain set of predefined milestones and thresholds. Funding, user growth, employee growth, etc. are traditional indicators of success that we correlate with our milestone based assessment in this report. We hope to become more granular in how we can measure consistency.
-- not sure how what you say contradicts anything we say. Thoughts?
- Jobs appears to have that certain je ne sais quoi. There are exceptional folks and outliers and he is one of them IMO. I wish I was smart enough to what it is about him so I could bottle that and become rich selling it, but alas...
- Market is significant because the size and growth of it matters. Picking a niche market that is not growing is a fatal flaw even if you do everything else right. Or when a market turns on you - just ask anyone involved in real estate in 2008.
- Success is profit or wealth-creating exit (not acq-hire or asset sale). By the metrics of funding, user growth and employee growth, most dot-com startups in 1999 were successes. I worked at one of them (Kozmo.com) - by those measures, we were one of the most successful companies ever :) Again, funding, users, employees may all be conditions which are necessary for success (not sure that's the case to be honest) but definitely not sufficient.
Am a data junkie so see lots of value in what you're doing but worry about efforts to distill entrepreneurship into a 'playbook'. There may be correlations with what is being observed but causality is a whole different world.
-- there is quite a lot of data about existing markets that are differentiated into cheaper, better and niche and new markets. How do you think is market significant. I am happy run a few tests for you :)
-- We measure success based on the consistency of how someone moves through a certain set of predefined milestones and thresholds. Funding, user growth, employee growth, etc. are traditional indicators of success that we correlate with our milestone based assessment in this report. We hope to become more granular in how we can measure consistency.
-- not sure how what you say contradicts anything we say. Thoughts?