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Re:Why you should choose an ambitious startup idea by baddox on Sunday March 11, 2012 @05:58PM (#3691413)
To what data are you referring? Surely there are also tons of smaller tech startups (or other small businesses) that were somewhat stable while small, but that failed directly due to their ambition.
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Re:Why you should choose an ambitious startup idea by felipemnoa on Sunday March 11, 2012 @08:47PM (#3691857)
>>To what data are you referring?

Probably all the data pg has gathered by funding a lot of startups?

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Re:Why you should choose an ambitious startup idea by substack on Sunday March 11, 2012 @09:14PM (#3691914)
For which there is a massive amount of selection bias going on. I would want to see actual figures and a proper linear regression model before jumping to any conclusions here.
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