Comments on: Startups: If you can avoid death you will get rich! http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2008/02/28/startups-if-you-can-avoid-death-you-will-get-rich/ Spurring innovation and entrepreneurship. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:27:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Mike Orren http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2008/02/28/startups-if-you-can-avoid-death-you-will-get-rich/#comment-345011 Mike Orren Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:03:28 +0000 http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2008/02/28/startups-if-you-can-avoid-death-you-will-get-rich/#comment-345011 Greatest compliment I ever got from an angel investor: You're the cockroach of startups... Greatest compliment I ever got from an angel investor:

You’re the cockroach of startups…

]]> By: Brad http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2008/02/28/startups-if-you-can-avoid-death-you-will-get-rich/#comment-344986 Brad Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:26:34 +0000 http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2008/02/28/startups-if-you-can-avoid-death-you-will-get-rich/#comment-344986 Great read... took me off to Y Combinator and all their funded startups. Very interesting stuff. Interesting that the average age of a Y Combinator funded startup founder is 25. I wonder if this is because the "young guns" are too naive to know when they are dying and somehow manage to hang on instead of "crawling off somewhere to die" ? Great read… took me off to Y Combinator and all their funded startups. Very interesting stuff.

Interesting that the average age of a Y Combinator funded startup founder is 25. I wonder if this is because the “young guns” are too naive to know when they are dying and somehow manage to hang on instead of “crawling off somewhere to die” ?

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