The Dow Jones Industrial Average. Nasdaq. Startup exits. Funding rounds. In our 24/7 connected world, there's no shortage of data you can access, study, and agonize over. The market's latest move—from boom to correction—has commentators and analysts in a tizzy; many investors are feeling anxious, too.

It's easy to get distracted by all this chatter, so I'm encouraging founders to tune it out and double down on their business goals—which raises the questions of what information entrepreneurs should follow and what they can safely dismiss.

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Originally published by Xconomy, March 2018

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