Knack for Teachers failure seems indicative of a larger trend in the start-up world, the explosion of doomed-to-fail start-ups founded by mediocre programmers with no understanding of their target market. These founders believe that their subpar efforts will somehow lead to the next airbnb or dropbox, ignoring the careful planning and sheer brilliance at the heart of all great start-up successes. My fear is that just…
I don't know about blaming this on any larger trend. I think that Jarrod just didn't understand his market. I don't know anything about him, but if this was one of his first companies then blaming failure on his customers is a pretty common thing. When my first company failed, I blamed my customers. When the second didn't get off the ground, I blamed the technology. And when my third failed, I blamed myself.
Also, I posted a follow up here: http://blog.studiofellow.com/2011/09/26/the-follow-up-knack-...