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Ok, but I'd take it as read that YC brings a bit of business acumen to the table.

I think a better conclusion to draw from that is that start-ups fail in large numbers, period.

The fact that they crash mostly for business reasons doesn't mean that those companies don't have business people associated with it. It simply means that running a start-up is hard, that your chances of success are small and that the business part of it is one of the hardest parts.

If the co-founders get everything right, but screw up the business bit then they don't stand a chance. But whether or not they have a business background hardly matters since almost all start-ups will have someone in the background with that expertise.

The bigger problem is that bad ideas get funded just as often (or even more often) as good ideas. And that good ideas will identify themselves in a really simple way, they get off the ground with relatively little effort in the business department, there is time enough to take a 'business guy' on board after you've become somewhat successful.

Google is a nice example of that.




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