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Comment by theprodigy | Hacker News Reader

you shouldn't care about the statistics of single founder success rates.

If you have an absolutely dynamite, compelling idea and can communicate it your business will get funded.

Investors do not discriminate against you just because you are solo. If your idea is good and you are solo they might play the entrepreneur match making game and introduce you to people that can assisst you.

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You are wrong.

They discriminate against you just because you are solo.

Kfool is right. We probably have higher standards for single founders, and I know a lot of later stage investors are reluctant to fund them at all.

Is the bias still relevant? CBInsights says 37% of recent Seed & Series A goes to single founders (dual founders are 40%).

Stats on slide 21: http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/venture-capit...

I suspect those numbers include biotech, where single founder startups are more common because they're often spinoffs of research projects with a single principal investigator.

To clarify, this first Venture Capital Human Capital report only covered Internet companies and does not include healthcare, greentech, etc which we expect to add over time along with longitudinal data.

This first report only looked at founders of internet companies who raised their first round of institutional funding between January to June 2010.

Hope that helps.

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