Only two of 150 incoming 500 Startups companies properly tracked metrics
Matt Lerner · 20 VC 082: 500 Startups Week: Growth Hacking 101: How To 10x Your Conversion with Matt Lerner, Head of Distro Dojo London · Oct 26, 2015 · at 14:38
Matt Lerner is Head of Distro Dojo London at 500 Startups. He discusses how few early-stage companies accurately instrument and track growth metrics prior to joining accelerator programs.
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“Across the entire team at 500, we can maybe think of two companies who came in and they had the right metrics and they were tracking them properly.”
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