The Joyless World of Data-Driven Startups
- Data-driven journalism gave usBuzzfeed
- Data-driven music gave us X-Factor and Pop Idol
- Data-driven movies gave us 25 Hollywood sequels planned for this year
- Data-driven education gave usKey Performance IndicatorsandTeaching to the test
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An early stage startup team that reads the countless blog posts about measuring and numerically assessing every minutiae will eventually realize, perhaps too late, that you can’t micro-optimize your way to success. Sure, you can improve many things by measuring and comparing, but you can’t optimize nothing into a hit. As the old saying goes, “You can’t polish a turd.”