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Re:You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way by walterk on Thursday January 08, 2009 @09:24AM (#424912)
> I'd say about a quarter to a third of founders we fund have never-give-up morale. The rest are mostly in the middle group.

What's the distribution of never-give-ups among YC startups? That is, do startups with a never-give-up tend to be composed entirely of never-give-ups? What are the dynamics for startups of mixed composition?

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Re:You Will Probably Fail in a Boring and Project-specific Way by pg on Thursday January 08, 2009 @01:25PM (#425346)
There seems to be some tendency of never-give-ups to cluster, but it's not absolute. It's common to have one founder who's super determined and another who is less so.

If the never-give-up is sufficiently convincing, that's almost as good as having all never-give-ups. He drags the rest along. The dangerous case is the startup that has all middle of the road founders. These have to get lucky fairly quickly or they give up.

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