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Unfortunately I think the sample bias that you mentioned makes this useless as any sort of statistical study. The one useful result I'd take from this is "succ

by dfranke 19y ago

Unfortunately I think the sample bias that you mentioned makes this useless as any sort of statistical study. The one useful result I'd take from this is "succeeding as a single founder is possible".

breck 19y ago
Useless for an academic study, but great if you are a decision maker and need quick insight with incomplete data.
- pumper 19y ago
  Very cool. Sometimes though, i think this is an ambiguous topic. There doesnt seem to be a strict definition of a founder? Ian
  - dfranke 19y ago
    I assume that in this context, founders are the people whose names show up on the incorporation filing.
fauigerzigerk 19y ago
Exactly. And maybe one non statistical result as well: A significant number of very successful people _believed_ that it was possible, otherwise they wouldn't have tried to go it alone.
- greendestiny 19y ago
  Five times as many must have believed they needed cofounders. Either way I still think the take home message can be that successful single founder companies aren't an insignificant bizarro event.
hollerith 19y ago
agreed: almost useless as a guide for prospective founders unless it takes into account the statistics for ventures that _failed_. For this reason I would be more interested in the stats for ycombinator funded companies that either succeeded or threw in the towel.