toner comments on Who Wants To Start An Important Startup? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: toner 20 August 2012 02:38:12PM *  4 points [-]

Quixey is incredibly successful. Also, LessWrong is still young. Give it time! There may be a bunch of startups out there we haven't heard of yet. For example, I'm doing a startup with 3 other LWers, but we need a little longer before we're successful ;-)

Comment author: Bruno_Coelho 24 August 2012 01:18:35AM 2 points [-]

I don't feel LessWrong young. OB 2006 posts are extremely past to me, even if a different site.

But If we consider LW a internet startup, the site is doing pretty fine, since the failure rate is 25% for US. For the first three year, the rate of sucess is 65%, 51% for 5 years. Besides having a core content written in a unusual language.