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Exactly.

Successful startups are analogous to surprising research results in academia, in the sense that we have much more information on them and therefore we can draw better conclusions about these entrepreneurial/academic successes.

Today, every good scientist is aware that having plentiful information on unsurprising research is almost as equally important, for many obvious and non-obvious reasons. This has resulted in journals created exclusively for publishing unsurprising research. [1]

If the most rigorous among us w/r to taking care of our collective body of knowledge are only starting to do it seriously, we can have hope that the industry might ramp up its capacities in this regard at some point - I wouldn't hold my breath that's it's going to happen soon though.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24229269