The title of the article should be: "2 founders are not always better than 1 for Kickstarter"
Also, they didn't define success. I bet it was just getting the project funded. The bar for VC success and Kickstarter are very different. Kickstarter doesn't have growth and ROI requirements. This might be a proxy for a lifestyle business, but not VC funded companies.
> First, we examine continuation of business operations at the time of the survey (The options were: “Still in operation as an ongoing for-profit business,” “Still in operation as an ongoing not-forprofit, artistic, or other type of endeavor,” “Still in operation, but acquired by/merged with another organization,” “Not operating as a result of being acquired by/merged with another organization,” “Not operating, temporarily stopped operations,” “Not operating, permanently stopped operations,” and “Not operating for another reason.”)
> We also used reported non-crowdfunding revenue based on a 12-point categorical scale ranging from none to over $10 million, using this as a direct measure of company success.
> The first model is an unconditional model, and reveals that solo founders do no worse with respect to average income than teams of three or more.
Also, they didn't define success. I bet it was just getting the project funded. The bar for VC success and Kickstarter are very different. Kickstarter doesn't have growth and ROI requirements. This might be a proxy for a lifestyle business, but not VC funded companies.