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WHAT ARE THE BEST METRICS FOR MEASURING A STARTUP’S POTENTIAL?

(COURTESY OF ANDY DUNN)

IN HIS 2012 ESSAY “Startup = Growth,” Paul Graham talks about a 5% to 7% weekly growth rate as table stakes for startup success. If you’re growing 10%, he says, you’re doing “exceptionally well.”

What’s stayed with me most from that essay is the way that Graham, a cofounder of the accelerator Y what the startup is for.

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