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Single non-technical, first time founder, 33, no ivy league degree, non-technical, no big brand experience searching for a co-founder. You should be a former Google or Apple employee, repeat founder, ideally technical, with an ivy league degree,active on twitter with no connections to First Round Capital.Oh, and you should be female, and 16 years old. We're gonna build the next Unicorn. ---------------------- Seriously, This is the type of irresponsible analysis that sinks ships. Fun to consume...But causes serious damage because it is complete non-sense, but everyone exposed to it will believe it...even with knowing it isn't accurate...it will still influence people who read it long into the future.


>it will still influence people who read it long into the future

I can’t see anyone with any understanding of statistics being influenced by this “study”, but I do agree there is a real risk that the less skilled VCs might be influenced by it, but I thought you weren’t supposed to accept dumb money anyway :)


It would be nice if it was true,but cognitive psychology indicates we are influenced by things we once believed even if we no longer believe them.


I think that's a risk if there were only 3 or 4 big conclusions but with 10 I think nearly everyone gets to stay "Well we hit 4 out of 10 and missed 3 out of 10 with a few in between"




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