[maxmarmer]

The initial idea isn't that important. Entrepreneurs change their idea all the time. In the report we show that consistent companies or ones that scale properly, are more focused on discovering whether their idea makes sense where as companies that scale prematurely are more focused on validating that they are right. And as far as personality, while it's an interesting variable to look at in the future, in the end of the day we just look at whether the company produces results regardless of their predisposition. It's also common wisdom that there are many different kinds of entrepreneurs that have been successful.

[torsten1979]

I see your point - however I still think that the company's predisposition is too important to be left out. In this spirit I suspect premature scaling to be a dependent variable (instead of being a first-level factor).