·We cannot predict whether this idea will succeed: judges' business-plan scores are uncorrelated with 3-year survival, employment, sales, and profits [R1].
·Scores are based on self-reported inputs; quoted numbers reflect documented optimistic bias [R8].
·Unknown is excluded from denominators: young ideas without revenue are never penalized for premature metrics.
·Fatal red flags cap the overall verdict regardless of high scores on other dimensions.
·Big headline market sizes do not predict growth or venture survival [R30].
·Customer lifetime value cannot be reliably calculated before you have historical customer cohorts [R23].
·Crowded markets do not predict unprofitability; positioning and cost barriers determine margins [R10].
·Patents without third-party citations correlate near zero with economic enterprise value [R51].
·Lock-in mechanisms only retain customers when underlying product quality is high [R49].
·Setting stopping points in advance is disciplined practitioner methodology to curb sunk-cost fallacy [R7].
·Three-quarters of funded ventures return zero cash to founders; personal downside must be budgeted [R21].
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