[ericevans]

The YC people deal with enough startups to see probabilities. They have data, and they say the odds improve dramatically with cofounders.

This article (mostly) doesn't dispute that, and explores ways to perhaps compensate for the lack of a cofounder and redress those odds a bit. That seems useful as a source of ideas, as long as we keep it in the right category.

It is in a different category from the YC statement, which was based on numbers. YC didn't draw conclusions about cause/effect, they just correlated. That's pretty solid ground. This article puts up several specific possible causes of the cofounder advantage and then possible solutions, which might work, if the cause/effect inference is right. Two layers of inference, based on anecdotal evidence.

The article made me think about the issue in a different way. I thought it was valuable in that way. I'd be really interested to know if people with data have correlated solo startup success with any other factors. Does anyone know of any such attempt?