You mention this as if you don't already have more than enough data to tell us whether it's true or not. Is it? When you run a spreadsheet and scatter plot ho

You mention this as if you don't already have more than enough data to tell us whether it's true or not. Is it? When you run a spreadsheet and scatter plot hours worked over the first few months against your ROI on startups, do you see a meaningful correlation? I say "first few months" because once a startup is successful, the founders are almost always going to put in more hours than those that languish in obscurity.