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What Startups Can Learn From Billy “Moneyball” Beane (gigaom.com)
6 points by tortilla on Aug 23, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


#3 is strange-- it claims that there's no such thing as a wrong metric, and then provides an example of a wrong metric (which they suggest no longer tracking).


I think the point is there are no harmful metrics to collect, but there are useless ones. However you don't know which ones are useless until you've collected them for while, so just collect them now and worry about their utility later.


Yeah, that just sounds weird.




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