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Re:Early Stage Startups: The Biggest Killers by technotony on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @08:26PM (#7595209)
This data somewhat contradicts that however, as it says unequal shares are correlated with higher initial funding valuations (obviously that's not a perfect metric) http://siepr.stanford.edu/system/files/shared/pubs/hellmann%...

I'd really like to see the data which suggests equal shares lead to better success outcomes (maybe YC has this?).

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Re:Early Stage Startups: The Biggest Killers by tptacek on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @08:46PM (#7595296)
My guess is that the numbers would swing sharply in the other direction if the study accounted for survivorship bias.
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