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You can always find another girlfriend. You have only one or two legitimate shots at a successful startup.

What is your evidence of this?

I can tell by the negative points that my clear precise insight was not PC enough. Bottom line, make the money and it becomes extremely easy to get a girlfriend. We nerds become attractive when the accounts balloon. Fact of life. Evidence: Every fellow Stanford grad valley startup nerd. Success = hot devoted girlfriend. Probability of getting girlfriend is positively correlated to startup success.

The sort of person who is attracted to you becasue of money doesn't seem as likely to generate a true and fulfilling relationship.

Most women look for successful men, because it is fundamentally wired in human behavior.

Creating a successful startup makes you more self-confident and it changes you in the way you will be more attractive to women. So, having money is just a side-effect. Having money is good sign you are successful (alpha male).

So it is not true, that with money you are likely to attract bad women. You will simply attract all women.

Knowing dozens of older men and women with families and traditional careers who go through life vaguely dissatisfied with the fact that they didn't follow their ambitions when they had the leisure?

The inverse, however, does little to guarantee happiness.

Here's my data:

http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/060629_money_happines...

And

http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/...

As well as:

http://www.astm.org/JOURNALS/FORENSIC/PAGES/JFS2004347.htm

Did I mention money?

Two of the studies deal with money.

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