Why I'm working for the man and not doing a startup

Re:Why I'm working for the man and not doing a startup by alain94040 on Sunday April 01, 2012 @06:35PM (#3785232)

I understand your argument, but I believe it's still statistically incorrect. I don't have research to back it up, but I'm faily confident that full-time employees are more likely to have a job a year from now with same or higher income, than startup entrepreneurs.

Yes, accidents can happen to everyone. You can get fired. Your startup can fail. Somehow, startups seem to fail more often than large companies. They fail in slow motion, us at startups fail fast.

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Re:Why I'm working for the man and not doing a startup by michaelochurch on Sunday April 01, 2012 @07:35PM (#3785453)

I'm faily confident that full-time employees are more likely to have a job a year from now with same or higher income, than startup entrepreneurs.

I'm pretty sure that on "same or higher income", entrepreneurs have better 1-year odds-- because their incomes are a lot lower.

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Re:Why I'm working for the man and not doing a startup by loganfrederick on Sunday April 01, 2012 @09:44PM (#3785826)

He means Expected Value I think. Average out all the entrepreneurs and their income today, compare that to their expected value in a year, and then compare that to the expected value of all full-time employees. Of course this is a really vague metric created by the parent post, but his/her point stands.

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