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You'd probably want to fix an n, and only compare the nth attempted startup for each person.


Only if you're interested in age as a strictly biological factor. Most of these discussions focus on age as a proxy for experience, in which case a larger n is entirely the point.


If you're looking for experience, then just look at experience (e.g. number of startup attempts).




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