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0 pointsbdcravens23d ago0 comments

If we judged all startups by the same standards (in terms of revenue to debt ratios), many of today's established companies would have been "failures" at the same point in their life cycle.

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BoredPositron23d ago

I wonder what the ratio of failures and survivors would be if we really judged all startups... survivorship bias is not a great point to make.

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0 pointsbdcravens23d ago0 comments

If we judged all startups by the same standards (in terms of revenue to debt ratios), many of today's established companies would have been "failures" at the same point in their life cycle.

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BoredPositron23d ago

I wonder what the ratio of failures and survivors would be if we really judged all startups... survivorship bias is not a great point to make.

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