Comments on: Startups: What are your odds for success?

By: Ron Thompson

Ron Thompson — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:38:39 +0000

Having made many investments in early stage technology companies, great insight on the high reward, high risk nature of venture investing – and the need to be an effective communicator.

By: John Huston

John Huston — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 18:33:04 +0000

Loved this edition, Dave. There are only two analysts who have impressed me to the point that I read all they write and buy all their books. Michael Mauboussin is my favorite (Howard Marks of Oaktree is #2). I wlould point you to Mauboussin’s latest just in case it might prompt you to do a piece about how entrepreneurs might think about the steps public traded acquirers use to scrub acquisition candidates.

By: Yoram Benbarak

Yoram Benbarak — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:26:21 +0000

Interesting. Now will be interesting to find out why most angel investors are so optimistic? Is it because they already had a success themselves, or is it the other way around: they were successful bc they are optimistic, and that trait stays for life.

Yoram

By: Kent Deines

Kent Deines — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 22:13:52 +0000

Dave, you might be interested in the Kauffman index of startups report. (Page 24) It states that 0.3% of adults per month become entrepreneurs. If we have 200M adults, that’s 7.2M new entrepreneurs per year. I think that’s amazing, even if few of them ever have an employee. It certainly says there is a lot of interest in entrepreneurship.
The report has data that says more education yields fewer startups.
Kent