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Surveys are not an easy undertaking. Not for lack of answers, but for lack of questions.

Complexity seems to lie in numerical and statistical procedures. However, the best statistician will not get anything out of skewed or faulty data.

Why then are so many surveys so badly written ?

For instance :

• many questions have multiple parts (“what is your opinion about this restaurant’s service?”). How do you know whether the client reacted to the great maître d’h or the horrendous waitress?
• …

Some companies are well known to be awful payers. 

Not necessarily on purpose. Usually, it is a question of process: too many necessary signatures, approvals, too many changes needed on the billing statement…

Of course, if a SME tried to do the same, its suppliers would soon panic, think it is in trouble, and stop delivering. However, most bad payers are usually large reputable companies. As a consequence, their suppliers bide their time and find other solutions — while, for…

I think that yes. RT @andrerib: (thanks mum!) Do dysfunctional families breed entrepreneurs? http://bit.ly/2RKWmI

Finally there is somebody else from NextStage on Twitter. Welcome @ma_gastineau !

RT @epelboin: 10 pistes d’évolution pour la télé (sur Internet) ! http://bit.ly/3OEhI9

Enfin reçu mes nouvelles cartes de visite avec mon identifiant twitter. #yam

RT @Franceunquote: NextStage has invested EUR 1m in Expertissim, an online art retail platform. http://bit.ly/qaB4u

RT @oliviermarx: Expertissim (e-Commerce d’objets d’art) lève 1 million d’euros via Nextstage et choisit ALTICS – http://bit.ly/1WNJsI

Nouveau post : “travailler dur, c’est surfait” http://bit.ly/JWtM1

New blog post: Working hard is overrated http://bit.ly/7sfrP

What’s the point of my credit card’s 3 digit CVV if firefox decides to memorize it ?

The day the media died : Madison Avenue Blues. Right on target and great ! http://bit.ly/M7HLN

New post : The problem w/ being certain is getting it all wrong http://bit.ly/17cq01 (En français : http://bit.ly/aOjtk)

“The best way to graduate from beginner is to get in way over your head. Nothing makes you better faster.” http://bit.ly/GsJeh

Why oh why does #Google Reader’s “mark all as read” act as “just mark some random things as read” ?

Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr.com : Working hard is overrated

(via Bijan Sabet)

“When we were building Flickr, we worked very hard. We worked all
waking hours, we didn’t stop. My Hunch cofounder Chris Dixon and I were
talking about how hard we worked on our first startups, his being Site
Advisor, acquired by McAfee — 14-18 hours a day. We agreed that a lot
of what we then considered “working hard” was actually “freaking out”.
Freaking out included panicking,…

A fundamental thruth of Venture Capital: very, very often, we get it totally wrong.

All the incentives are there to make it more painful to believe in a company that doesn’t make it (Type I error) than to pass on a company that makes it big (Type II error). As a consequence, from the moment we receive a business plan, assuming we get excited by the company, most of the review process is focused on finding good reasons to say no.


And it is to be expected that sometimes we are…

Nouveau post : les mauvais payeurs, et leurs fournisseurs. http://bit.ly/15zPX