Study: Attractive men fare best in gaining venture capital
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First, their study collected literally zero data about venture capitalists. Their first experiment looked at "pitch competitions", where people give speeches and/or submit business plans to a set of judges, and the judges pick a winner. This is distinct from events like Demo Day because there is no follow-up or due diligence: choices are made solely based on the speech/written plan. For obvious reasons, these "competitions" usually don't involve serious money. Picking three at random from Google, the first prizes were $1,000, $3,000, and "a meeting with Andreesen Horowitz", plus a bunch of discounts from Rackspace and so on.
The second and third experiments were even sillier. They literally recruited a bunch of random people on Mechanical Turk, asked them to watch a pitch video, and then asked them to judge which company they thought was more likely to succeed.
And even if you did a study showing that VCs invested in men more often, that wouldn't mean VCs are biased: you have to control for a bunch of other factors too. If, eg. startup employees preferred to work for companies run by attractive men, a perfectly unbiased VC would invest in attractive men more often, just because their companies were objectively doing better.
Here's a link to the original paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Brooks%20Huan...
So uh, they do worse, then.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150213-the-downsides-of-be...
To pull off the shaved head successfully you need to have a strong jaw and squarish face. Not all faces are created equal.
However, shaving your head does not necessarily mean you're going to look "good", aka Jason Statham mode. A lot of people just look like eggs or aliens when they shave their heads.
Being a young man who's balding might seem depressing, but I can certainly think of something far more depressing. Propecia's labeling was recently updated to say that erectile dysfunction may be permanent, even if you stop taking the drug.
Wiki: Bill Porter born with cerebral palsy, was unable to gain employment, but refused to go on disability. Porter eventually convinced Watkins Incorporated to give him a door-to-door salesman job, selling its products on a seven-mile route in the Portland area. He eventually became the top seller for the company.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/11707591/Why-me...