Comment by ethegwo
9 hours ago
Many VCs are only doing one thing: how to use some magical quantitative metrics to assess whether a project is reliable without knowing the know-how. Numbers are always better than no numbers.
9 hours ago
Many VCs are only doing one thing: how to use some magical quantitative metrics to assess whether a project is reliable without knowing the know-how. Numbers are always better than no numbers.
Honestly I don't know if that's true. Picking up on vibes might be better than something like GitHub stats.
When a partner decides to recommend a startup to the investment committee, he needs some explicit reasons to convince the committee, not some kind of implicit vibe
But given the amount of astroturfing and star-buying out there, relying on star counts may well select for deceptive founders.
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