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It would be interesting to scan HN for startups that launched years ago and evaluate the sentiment of the comments. Then, group the startups into "successful"
by Xcelerate 9y ago
It would be interesting to scan HN for startups that launched years ago and evaluate the sentiment of the comments. Then, group the startups into "successful" and "unsuccessful" and see how user sentiment at the time of the launch matches up with the startup's level of success. Would there be a trend?
- kansface 9y agoMy guess is that sentiments are almost always negative on average and do not strongly correlate to outcomes. Its very easy to pick a reason why any startup will fail, and 99/100 times, the average reason is correct.
- 5thaccount 9y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 is a great example (spoiler alert: DropBox)