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Why are those metrics considered to be bad? I am obviously judging with hindsight and without daily deal noise here but if i look at them:

* Within the first weeks first revenue

* Within 4 months numbers that by themselves each look promising (40-60% response rate although crap product, good revenue per night, good nights booked, etc)

Personally i dont expect any of those metrics nowadays to be further away than 1.5-2x better

The "only" big q's left is:

* is the market big enough it's worth scaling the quantity

* is that team capable of doing it

I feel like i am missing something here (obviously i judge from hindsight) but what about this numbers is "bad metrics"?



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