I'm getting a 404, and the domain home says the user hasn't published a book yet. Has it been taken down for good?
Failed Startup Post-Mortems
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Re: Failed Startup Post-Mortems
#42It seems the book has been taken down now, returns a 404.
Yeah I was looking forward to reading them, I guess this is best for now: https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem/
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
>The obvious solution It would be even better if authors who are going to say yes to a request like that would make it clear, by using a Creative Commons license in the first place.
That eliminates the possibility of saying yes on a case-by-case basis, though. I'm generally okay with stuff I write on the Internet appearing in compilations, reblogs, commentary, articles, etc. - but I have declined if, for example, the journalist seems to be writing a piece with a particular slant that I feel misrepresents what I was trying to say.
A journalist will freely quote you and misrepresent your statement regardless of any copyright license.
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#44It seems the book has been taken down now, returns a 404.
Yeah, there are some suckers in this post who do nothing better than complain. Author did not copy anyone's content rather simply linked and compiled the list. By that logic you should also complain about Google because all they do is show results for query and link to other people's content. Does anyone have link to cached version ?
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#46Amazing idea! Is it possible to export this to a PDF or Kindle format?
Downloadable format seem to be available here: https://www.gitbook.io/book/3things/77-failed-startup-post-m... (including Kindle & PDF)
@kumarm - any chance you could put the PDF somewhere? The link has been taken down. I was really looking forward to combing through that.
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#47Most of these, given the order, look to be from our original compilation of startup failure post-mortems. We've compiled 101 to date which you can see here. https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem/ Perhaps more useful, we also sifted through and analyzed each post-mortem to identify the top 20 reasons for startup failure. The biggest reasons founders have cited has not been running out of money or…
> Perhaps more useful, we also sifted through and analyzed each post-mortem to identify the top 20 reasons for startup failure. "But you must provide an email to get access to that."
"And our email validator is totally broken"
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#48It appears that the link is dead, giving a 404. Anyone have a copy up somewhere (or that they can send me privately)?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
That eliminates the possibility of saying yes on a case-by-case basis, though. I'm generally okay with stuff I write on the Internet appearing in compilations, reblogs, commentary, articles, etc. - but I have declined if, for example, the journalist seems to be writing a piece with a particular slant that I feel misrepresents what I was trying to say.
A journalist will freely quote you and misrepresent your statement regardless of any copyright license.
That's why you write in situations like these in the first place. That's a way to pre-emptively stake your position giving journalists minimal room for creative mis-interpretation.
Interviews are a totally different situation and 'on the record' quotes out of context are the very reason I avoid interviews like the plague. I've yet to have one where that didn't happen, journalists are also called 'reporters' but from my experience 'reporting' to them does not mean reporting what was told to them but retelling in a way that suits their own agenda.
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Pud - bring back FuckedCompany. Based on all of our data, it's about that time.
People ask me all the time to bring it back. Was fun when it was happening and I tried to be funny and good-spirited, but now I have more of an appreciation for entrepreneurs and how hard it is to build a business... so I won't bring it back. Also won't bring it back because of onwards and upwards.. and so on. Thanks for asking though :) Still makes me happy when people tell me they like my work.
Fuckedcompany served an important role as a reality check on some of the more idiotic aspects of the bubble. As an entrepreneur who was active at that very time I really want to thank you for providing a bit of a backdrop against which my strategy made some sense. I realized early on that 'go big or go home' would probably translate into 'go bust or go home' and I felt that the huge number of businesses that ended up in the 'go bust' bin versus the ones that made it turned the whole art of running a business more into something resembling a lottery.
So I agree fully with not bringing it back but if we ever get into another out-of-control over-hyped dumb money situation then I really hope that you or someone like you will do a re-run of fuckedcompany.com.