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Research: When Does Scientific Decision-Making Benefit Startups?

February 24, 2025
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Founders know the mantra: make data-driven decisions. In recent years, the scientific approach to nurturing start-ups—developing hypotheses, collecting evidence that either supports or refutes them, and letting the data guide decisions—has been shown to boost ventures’ performance.

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