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Ask HN: Founders whose startups have failed, where did life take you afterwards?
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Re: Ask HN: Founders whose startups have failed, where did life take you afterwards?
#2I built another one that I left (it's still going) and am now the director of software at a startup that went through the same Techstars class mine did.
Re: Ask HN: Founders whose startups have failed, where did life take you afterwards?
#3I tried and "failed" a couple of times in the last 14 years. Having a family pushed me to decide to settle down for some time. I started working as a software engineer at Apple a week ago. The itch is still there though ;-).
Re: Ask HN: Founders whose startups have failed, where did life take you afterwards?
#4I tried and "failed" a couple of times in the last 14 years. Having a family pushed me to decide to settle down for some time. I started working as a software engineer at Apple a week ago. The itch is still there though ;-).
Where do you think you went wrong and who do you think you can avoid that in the future?
Re: Ask HN: Founders whose startups have failed, where did life take you afterwards?
#5I tried and "failed" a couple of times in the last 14 years. Having a family pushed me to decide to settle down for some time. I started working as a software engineer at Apple a week ago. The itch is still there though ;-).
Where do you think you went wrong and who do you think you can avoid that in the future?
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Re: Ask HN: Founders whose startups have failed, where did life take you afterwards?
#6i worked at a startup with a couple of failed founders -- basically you grab the next best engineering job you can find and lick your wounds until you're either ready to start again or give up completely
Re: Ask HN: Founders whose startups have failed, where did life take you afterwards?
#7Keep in mind this depends on when you fail.
What happens when you take 10million in VC and then fail?
Compare to a 100k angel round and then fail?
Re: Ask HN: Founders whose startups have failed, where did life take you afterwards?
#8I tried and "failed" a couple of times in the last 14 years. Having a family pushed me to decide to settle down for some time. I started working as a software engineer at Apple a week ago. The itch is still there though ;-).
Where do you think you went wrong and who do you think you can avoid that in the future?
The first time I picked the wrong co-founders (friends and all were engineers).
The second time I picked the wrong project.
The third time my co-founder died.
The fourth time I wanted to do it alone but I almost burned out before my family started to send the signal that it was time for a change but I still think the tech and project are excellent though.
Re: Ask HN: Founders whose startups have failed, where did life take you afterwards?
#9i worked at a startup with a couple of failed founders -- basically you grab the next best engineering job you can find and lick your wounds until you're either ready to start again or give up completely
exactly!
Re: Ask HN: Founders whose startups have failed, where did life take you afterwards?
#10Failed, consulting, startup, failed, consulting, success, failed, job, job, startup, sold, job.