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As someone once wrote: Most successful startup advice is tautology or survivorship bias.
by diminish 9y ago
As someone once wrote: Most successful startup advice is tautology or survivorship bias.
- WalterBright 9y agoOn the other hand, the failure rate for those who never try is 100%.
- eru 9y agoI wouldn't call getting a large steady paycheck at a nine-to-five a 'failure'.
- mlevental 9y agoneither would the person you responded to; clearly they're talking about failing at a successful startup
- eru 9y agoI'm not sure. Why would people "who never try" end up at a startup, successful or otherwise? EDIT: Hmm, I guess you meant "fail at having running a successful startup?" Yeah, probably.
- bryanrasmussen 9y agoSince I've never tried swimming, I drowned.
- Retric 9y agoNever doing a startup != failure.
- coldtea 9y agoOnly if one doesn't account for the opportunity cost. E.g. if one tries and fails 5 times and ends up nowhere (or in debt), another person that never tried but used the same time and effort and got to a 200K salary has it better.
- Retra 9y agoThat's the tautology part.