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by downandout 3816 days ago
>3. It's fun and exciting to use someone else's money to try to come up with a new business type.

Most startups are not able to raise money from outside investors. In fact I'd say outside of the Stanford student/graduate/dropout crowd, it's probably less than 1%. The other 99% also don't get paychecks because they can't draw from investment capital they never got.