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How would you study it exactly? Start-ups fail all the time for reasons that have nothing to do with their organisation or even execution. And if you prove that
by jemmyw 3y ago
How would you study it exactly? Start-ups fail all the time for reasons that have nothing to do with their organisation or even execution. And if you prove that some succeed with it and some fail with it, as you suggest, then you've proven nothing.
My hypothesis is that it doesn't make any significant difference once the startup has grown beyond its founders (and they can work however works for them). No idea how to test that.
- andy_ppp 3y agoIf it can't be measured does it exist? Back to magical thinking again. Maybe you are right there are too many variables at play to make pithy statements about any of this either way. I think YC could at least release anonymised data about all the companies so that people could at least do some analysis to see if statements like this are at least in line with the data. As we know human beings are extremely good at spotting patterns and even better at fooling themselves.