IMO, if you can talk about these features/predictors, they are true predictors. Otherwise, if people can game the system if they knew these features, I'd think they're more artifacts about your current process than attributes of failing startups (and if it turns out that these features are actually causative of failure, rather than just predictive, everyone can be a better startup too).
IMO, if you can talk about these features/predictors, they are true predictors. Otherwise, if people can game the system if they knew these features, I'd think they're more artifacts about your current process than attributes of failing startups (and if it turns out that these features are actually causative of failure, rather than just predictive, everyone can be a better startup too).