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Re: Show HN: Dead Yet? – Keep an eye on dying startups

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Post by conradfr »

shopkins wrote: post #25
golergka wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

502. Well, that didn't take long.

Really need to host isdeadyet.deadyet.lol on another page so it's accurate next time. Try again now.

http://www.isityet.io/i/is-dead-yet-dead-yet-38

Re: Show HN: Dead Yet? – Keep an eye on dying startups

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Post by ikeboy »

akerro wrote: post #10
sarreph wrote: post #3

Interesting idea. However, I'm not a fan of the overwhelmingly negative vibe this gives off. By this I mean there seems to be no effort made about any kind of constructive criticism or help, e.g. a way to offer feedback on the listed startups so that they could actually use it as a platform to learn from. So far it seems to me that it's more of a "Haha, you didn't make it" page creator when it could actually become a…

I don't like the negative vibes I get from http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ instead giving tip how to stay up it's purposed to say if website is down. It's normal that companies die. What advice would you give them?

http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html

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Post by shopkins »

catwell wrote: post #76

Some living startups are listed dead (Pinboard, bad URL), but some dead startups are listed alive as well. For instance, L'Usine à Design is dead since 2013. They were a French company that made furniture, I bought a couch from them. Their office was on the same floor as Moodstocks, where I was working at the time, and after it closed a few angry customers came banging at our door to complain. (The reason why the web…

Thanks, I fixed the URLs and data on those.

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Post by spinlock »

shams93 wrote: post #68
jgrahamc wrote: post #36

Has none of the charm of FuckedCompany. That was a great web site and really captured the mood back then. Thanks https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pud

I lived through that era compared to then things might be tight but people are actually making money back then nobody was making money and web applications required teams of c/c++ people the burn rates were staggering.

I think the difference is public vs private money. If we are in a bubble (which I'm not sure of but let's assume yes for the sake of argument) the investors that stand to loose their capital are all "qualified investors." There are few public companies that are "frothy" this time. Personally, I think the fact that the public markets appear to still be functioning well is _why_ few startups are going for IPOs.

Of course, if startups do start to IPO and the public markets catch the over-valuation bug, then we could see a repeat of 2000. Barring that, I think a correction would not infect the markets at large and may drive more capital into the public companies that are not over valued.

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