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Ask HN: Statistics on startups that lose a co-founder early?
Does anyone know of any statistics on the success/failure rate of startups that lose a co-founder in the early days, say before demo day or Series A?
- jacquesm 13y agoShake-out is pretty common. The start-ups that I'm aware of at least 1/10th or so have lost a co-founder early on. The majority of those survive, a few die because of it. I could probably compile more detailed stats but it would be much more interesting to do this on a larger and better documented body such as all the YC start-ups.
- SkyMarshal 13y agoThanks, much appreciated. Indeed it would be awesome if PG published anonymized data on stuff like this, but it's probably quite valuable, almost a trade secret.
- slykat 13y ago"Fights between founders are surprisingly common. About 20% of the startups we've funded have had a founder leave." -Paul Graham http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html Given that the YC pool should be higher quality than average, I'd assume the number to be significantly higher for the overall pool of startups.
- SkyMarshal 13y agoGood find, thank you!