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balls187 on June 9, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Jessica Livingston’s Pretty Complete List on How N...

growth & revenue are ways to show "traction" -- a buzzwordy way to measure meaningful progress.

For an R&D based startup working on Fusion, that progress would be measured differently.

Many businesses have Key Performance Indicators (KPI's). Startups should be no different.

tlb on June 9, 2016 | [–]

I've seen meaningful progress metrics in R&D-stage companies working on fusion, synthetic bio, AI, rockets, and more. I think they're especially important in R&D companies, because it's so easy to go off into the weeds or solve the wrong problems.

dasil003 on June 9, 2016 | [–]

And YC probably doesn't see many of those...

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