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Sanjay Parekh
Personal blog · sanjayparekh.com · on HN as sanjayparekhstartupseconomicssecurity
Sanjay Parekh's personal blog at sanjayparekh.com covers startups, economics and security. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Skill Versus Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Thoughts on technology, security, investing, and public policy.
Most-linked posts?
- Skill Versus Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-12-05
What Hacker News says?
There was a paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research from back in 2006 that had a similar study and findings. I dug through it and brought out the relevant parts (relevant to me at least) here: http://www.sanjayparekh.com/skill-versus-luck-in-entrepreneu...
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on “First time entrepreneurs have 18% chance of success; 2nd time entrepreneurs: 30%”Submitted IP Geolocation Is Twenty-Five Years Old as a story · 88 points
HN discussionCan't make the above links so here, to make this easy: http://www.sanjayparekh.com/georgia-startup-award/ Sanjay
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on “Making Startups Pay for Awards”Submitted Shotput Ventures 2.0 as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Too Many Gas Stations (A parable for startups) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted A short analysis of 1m Twitter users' websites as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Penny Is Dead, but Precision Isn't as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Skill Versus Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spam Trapping as a story · 0 points
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