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Why are you on this site if you don’t believe in early stage investing?
by dpiers 8y ago
Why are you on this site if you don’t believe in early stage investing?
- cyberpunk0 8y agoMaybe tech news? Not everyone cares about marketing and overblown venture capital nonsense
- charlesdm 8y agoEarly stage investing is akin to setting your money on fire. Great if you get a homerun, but likely the story will end with you being out of pocket a significant amount of money. It's super high risk, with a low chance of success. There are plenty alternative assets to invest in with a better risk reward profile (stocks, acquiring proven and profitable tech products, even cryptocurrencies, and other alternative assets)
- richardknop 8y agoThis website is called hacker news. Most people here are interested in tech, programming and such. Angel investors and VC people are small minority.
- joejerryronnie 8y agoI would think people interested in startup financing/investing are a bigger contingent of HN'ers than you assume. It is run by YC after all.
- richardknop 8y agoPerhaps but if you look at most threads, they are very tech/hacker oriented and most commenters, if you read their posts or history, are software engineers here. I think that is at least 70% majority.
- joejerryronnie 8y agoYes, I would agree with you. As an aside, I always find it interesting when a somewhat niche post comes up and you realize that HN commenters also include some folks with very different careers than SWEs - e.g. Theoretical Astrophysicists, Volcanologists, or Wind Farmers.