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Re:Given the odds, is taking venture capital the best way to... by calambrac on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @12:11AM (#637348)
That poll would suffer pretty badly from survivorship bias. Knowing that 75% of people who are rich took investment isn't useful without knowing what percentage of people who seriously tried and had some real potential to get rich took investment - if it was 99%, then taking investment actually looks pretty bad.

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