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Re:We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage by polskibus on Saturday April 20, 2019 @01:46PM (#19707812)
Aren't most startup founders straight out of school and never worked anywhere full time in software? Maybe that's why they behave like they do with only small guidance from their VCs that could well be detached from reality too.
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Re:We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage by phamilton on Saturday April 20, 2019 @01:56PM (#19707862)
Or, as the title of the post suggests, the VC guidance is to look for suckers.
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Re:We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage by shaggerty on Saturday April 20, 2019 @03:13PM (#19708341)
The average age of a software startup founder is 40 [1].

[1] https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-succes...

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