Let's say you're a VC or an Angel, and you need to figure out which of many companies will survive, succeed, and become a profit-making 'star'. So, you follow a generally accepted set of guidelines. You evaluate the market, examine barriers to entry, rank the competition, and predict the outlook for product sales. You place a value on IP and examine cost projections for everything from the technology infrastructure to the coffee vendor. You often know the 'ballpark', and if you don't, you know someone who does, so you can easily make adjustments and allowances to refine the company's projections.

But there is one thing you can't do - or at least, you haven't been able to do 'til now - and that is to predict how well management will perform as a team.