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There is obvious survivorship bias in the analysis throughout this article. You could reframe it as startups that succeed done have these problems - well, duh! Edit: actually the more i go through it, it sounds like chatgpt prose, especially by the end.
I noticed that too. 100% mostly written by AI.
This seems to miss diagnose the issue as suicide but really the startup wasn’t having success. If the company isn’t making money, then yes you run out of runway, you get founder conflicts etc. Saying this is suicide is missing the point. If you are failing giving up is sometimes the right option. Many startups are based on assumptions/predictions that turn out to be wrong. And it is hard to pivot if you’ve spent the…
(yes, /s)
I had some savings during the pandemic and I needed to choose between down payment for a house or fund my patient monitoring venture. I had contact with few care home chains and very positive feedback and even agreement for a test run. I was pussy and went for a home. Couple years later no semiconductor parts were available anymore and I was super happy with my cautious decision. I heard of few hardware ventures, whi…
What I’ve seen kill companies is the mismatch between those two curves: the time it takes to get real signal from the market vs the time a small group of humans can tolerate living in permanent crisis mode. In a ZIRP world you could paper over that with cheap capital; in 2025 you can’t. Calling that “suicide” makes it sound like a failure of grit, when it’s often just updating on new information about your life and the macro environment and deciding this particular lottery ticket isn’t worth any more years.
I never thought I would fail. For 7+ years I think that's what drove me. Then things changed. Life changed. They attribute it to burnout and often that is the case, but you have to also factor in life and motivation changes. If the success doesn't come soon enough, you start looking towards other things, other aspects of life, if I may even say, more rewarding and real parts of life. Startups are a microcosm of what…
There is obvious survivorship bias in the analysis throughout this article. You could reframe it as startups that succeed done have these problems - well, duh! Edit: actually the more i go through it, it sounds like chatgpt prose, especially by the end.
Just more bare assertions.
You could easily write the exact opposite article (ie “exactly as people believe, most startups run out of money well before they give up internally” or whatever) and it would sound exactly as true
There's a huge difference in startup cultures too, I noticed the European regions are more focused on organic growth while US startups tend to aim high. I've been a solo dev in a startup with like 4 people for little over a year now, the business exists since 2 years and we are somewhat even on expenses vs income now. Growth is pretty slow, but as long as we break even its been pretty good.
IMO as soon as the investment dry this is going to be seen as "smart" and "grounded" but it should have been the only way of doing. Having VC gamble on start-up all the time is just not sustainable. If a product is not generating $ then maybe it deserves to die
Somewhat agree. Depends on the product, if its novel and does not do its job well enough to generate a revenue stream it does yea. If it's in a market where some big corp has a monopoly I'd love to be able to see whether the monopoly killed it silently, like Amazon does with many many startups (predatory pricing).
Monopolies are creating unfair competition scenarios for businesses ensuring them to stay alone at the top... Idk what happened to competition but im tired of local shops closing due to people buying everything from a predatory corporation.
I had some savings during the pandemic and I needed to choose between down payment for a house or fund my patient monitoring venture. I had contact with few care home chains and very positive feedback and even agreement for a test run. I was pussy and went for a home. Couple years later no semiconductor parts were available anymore and I was super happy with my cautious decision. I heard of few hardware ventures, whi…
What do you mean by "radar" data? Literal radar? Or am I missing some more specialized term?