Field guide 13
Uncountable
Why regional entrepreneurship data cannot be added up
Every ecosystem that builds ventures
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7 pages
What it argues
Four organizations in one region report the number of businesses they supported last year. The four numbers cannot be added together, cannot be compared, and overlap by an amount nobody can calculate.
What you take away
Record the event, not the interpretation
Support many definitions over one record
Identify the same founder across organizations
Make the double count measurable
Distinguish intensity, not just incidence
Let the founder answer once
Preserve the series across definition changes
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