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You can’t judge a startup by the looks of its founder — but many potential investors do.

That’s the upshot of a newly published study co-authored by MIT researchers, which shows that attractive men have disproportionate success in obtaining venture capital funding for startups, compared with women and with less physically appealing men.

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