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Re:Entrepreneurs Aren’t a Special Breed – They’re Mostly Ric... by balls187 on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @07:51PM (#15658733)
This is an opinion article. No sources made for the claims in the article what-so-ever.

I was in Techstars. There were some founders who came from prominent families, but there were others from the working class.

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Re:Entrepreneurs Aren’t a Special Breed – They’re Mostly Ric... by jnbiche on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @08:44PM (#15659043)
Here's a paper that says the exact same thing (that most entrepreneurs come from wealth), but with much more data: http://www.nber.org/papers/w19276.pdf
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Re:Entrepreneurs Aren’t a Special Breed – They’re Mostly Ric... by cosentiyes on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @08:21PM (#15658899)
> "This is an opinion article"

> provides anecdote as counterevidence

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Re:Entrepreneurs Aren’t a Special Breed – They’re Mostly Ric... by darawk on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @08:36PM (#15658993)
Anecdotes are a perfectly valid counter-argument to anecdotes. They're both meaningless.
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Re:Entrepreneurs Aren’t a Special Breed – They’re Mostly Ric... by moseandre on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @08:50PM (#15659081)
Evidence accumulates, it does not spring into existence.
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Re:Entrepreneurs Aren’t a Special Breed – They’re Mostly Ric... by CobrastanJorji on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @08:07PM (#15658821)
it seems like your evidence, that of a small sample of entrepreneurs, you ran into multiple youth from prominent families, suggests that rich kids are at least substantially over-represented, although most likely not 100% of entrepreneurs.
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Re:Entrepreneurs Aren’t a Special Breed – They’re Mostly Ric... by balls187 on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @11:07PM (#15659771)
None of the "youth" (two) were rich-kids.

Most however, had significant education and work experience (MIT, Stanford, Amazon, Google, MSFT).

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