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Do more than 1 in 4000 people really die from falling in the shower?

I also wonder where these figures came from: "Computer hardware and software, semiconductors, communication, and biotechnology account for 81 percent of all venture capital dollars, and 72 percent of the companies that got VC money over the past 15 or so years."

I see a lot of these types of statistics in articles about startup financing. As far as I know, there's no publicly available database of VC transactions.

Anyone know where these numbers could be coming from?

Showers or tubs are pretty dangerous, but not for the 18-35 demographic.

I also thought that was kind of misleading. Probably more than 1/4000 people who die are killed in the shower, but that's not really a relevant comparison. When people get old they probably die in the shower fairly regularly. There was definitely an implication that the probability of getting vc money for your startup is less than the probability of you dying in the shower, say, tomorrow.

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