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Re: Poll: Did you start company in 2011?

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Post by georgemcbay » Sun, Dec 25, 2011, 8:10 PM UTC

ya3r wrote: post #53

I'm fascinated by the fact that more people started a business/company in 2011 than people who didn't.

There are two probable sets of selection bias going on -- one is that HN readers are probably much, much more likely to start a business than those from the general public (just like Fox News viewers are more likely to vote Republican) and then on top of that, people who started their own business are more likely to take the poll than those who didn't (because they are people who did start a business, clearly the topic is of more interest to them).

Re: Poll: Did you start company in 2011?

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Post by math » Sun, Dec 25, 2011, 8:16 PM UTC

Yep. We started http://backrecord.com [early days]. The driving factor for me with this is I really want to get a better handle on market efficiency. Despite studies claiming otherwise [and much scoffing by peers], my gut feel is that some aspects of some markets are not efficient. We're far enough in that we're getting some results. The data is certainly very noisy, but early indications are that there is some signal in there too.

Re: Poll: Did you start company in 2011?

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Post by EGF » Sun, Dec 25, 2011, 8:40 PM UTC

Incorporated a newco this year (webvio.com) which is the first new entity in awhile. Its a labs project with our first launch of todayskicks.com so far.

Re: Poll: Did you start company in 2011?

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Post by cgag » Sun, Dec 25, 2011, 8:54 PM UTC

EGF wrote: post #59

Incorporated a newco this year (webvio.com) which is the first new entity in awhile. Its a labs project with our first launch of todayskicks.com so far.

You should do something to make links stand out imo.