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Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
it took us eleven years until the company was acquired.
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Andreessen follows this credo: “Invest in strength versus…
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What’s important to remember is that startups build for the long term, and sometimes, by the time their products are ready, the market is back up and stable. My point: you can and should start a company, no matter whether the market looks good or grim.
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My dataset includes any startup that at one point passed the billion-dollar valuation, whether by going public (via an initial public offering, or IPO), by getting acquired, or in private funding rounds—so my study is defined more broadly than just private investor valuations, which is what is usually referred to as a unicorn. Some might argue that
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My dataset showed that the founders of billion-dollar companies were more likely to have PhDs than be dropouts, many of them had entirely non-technical co-founders, fewer than 15 percent went through any accelerator program, many weren’t solving a personal problem, and very few were first to market.
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investors simply get skittish about sinking money into ideas that have failed before. In practice, however, it seems as though some ideas repeat every now and then, and they finally work when they align with the right market dynamics.
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People who have no emotional stake in a decision can see what needs to be done sooner. —ANDY GROVE, FORMER CEO OF INTEL
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Founding CEOs of billion-dollar companies have a wide age range, with half over thirty-four at the time of founding. A founder’s age—whether younger or older—doesn’t correlate strongly with success.
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those capital needs could create a form of…
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There were over two hundred billion-dollar companies founded in the time period of my study, between 2005 and 2018, many of which you may not have heard of.
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