If you work backwards, starting with people who have successful exits, you will find occasional intersections on mailing lists or IRC channels or meetups or mod

If you work backwards, starting with people who have successful exits, you will find occasional intersections on mailing lists or IRC channels or meetups or model railroad clubs. This doesn't mean that list or whatever caused the success. This is the same problem epidemiologists face when trying to explain cancer clusters. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy