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Re:Startup company failure rates are grossly misleading by epi0Bauqu on Monday May 24, 2010 @12:08PM (#1374942)
So you think someone entering a startup blind (no advice, no methodology on customer development/hiring/etc.) has an equal failure rate to someone who's spent years taking in good advice?

The other subgroups were capital intensive vs not and low marginal cost vs high. I think all three would decrease your chances of failure.

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Re:Startup company failure rates are grossly misleading by nostrademons on Monday May 24, 2010 @02:23PM (#1375318)
What counts as good advice? I would imagine that bloggers on the Internet (even if they've sold companies successfully before, and even though they're better than the information vacuum before the Internet) don't really compare to having face-to-face investments from a network of angels who've done this before.
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Re:Startup company failure rates are grossly misleading by dkuchar on Monday May 24, 2010 @12:52PM (#1375055)
and if you're VC funded your model is capital intensive, otherwise what's the point.
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