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Re:Launch HN: Buoyant (YC S21) – Blimp drones for air freight by mensetmanusman on Monday August 23, 2021 @05:51PM (#28282435)
On average it has worked spectacularly well though.

Most founders aren’t taking a risk (they tend to come from wealthy families) they are executing a vision.

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Re:Launch HN: Buoyant (YC S21) – Blimp drones for air freight by _tom_ on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @11:02AM (#28289745)
Depends on whether by “average” you mean “median” or “mean”!

I’d bet the median return on startups is negative.

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Re:Launch HN: Buoyant (YC S21) – Blimp drones for air freight by deepnotderp on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @02:57PM (#28293286)
The entire point of venture capital is to have 9 failures out of 10 and 1 that returns the entire fund
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