The importance of measuring progress in your startup, and how to do it

14/02/2023 11 min Temporada 1 Episodio 23

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Episode Synopsis

Ang Xing Xian is the CEO and Co-Founder of CapBay, a leading Supply Chain Finance platform that helps businesses obtain smarter financing. Under his leadership, CapBay has provided more than USD 500 million in digital financing to businesses in Southeast Asia. Xing Xian has extensive experience in management consulting as a management consultant with Accenture Strategy, advising multinational companies on technology and analytics. He was also an in-house management consultant for Creador, a private equity firm. Xing Xian graduated from Oxford University with a Master’s in Computational Finance, following his Mathematics Bachelor's degree from Imperial College London.
In this talk, Xing Xian explains that given the outcomes entrepreneurs are aiming for are distant, measuring progress can be hard. He introduces the concept of elevated periods of growth in the journey of a startup, and periods where the company painfully grinds forward, and he explains how to measure progress for each and what happens in between them.

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