Building a Startup? Learn from success stories of industry leaders
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#2I clicked on a couple of the stories I know well from first-hand experience and found a lot of mistakes. This is a neat idea but if it's just assembling headlines it will miss the insights that would actually help founders.
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#3I clicked on a couple of the stories I know well from first-hand experience and found a lot of mistakes. This is a neat idea but if it's just assembling headlines it will miss the insights that would actually help founders.
Agreed. The devil (and genius) is in the details. It would be great to learn what mistakes they made and how they got over them as well as the successes.
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#4This is really cool. BUT, I think most HN readers would be most interested in the founding stories, and the hustle / hurdles overcome / pivots that these founders showcased.
For instance, there's no mention that Slack came out of a failed game company or that Uber was originally supposed to just be on-demand limos for a small group of friends! These are the key parts of the stories that are missing.
Re: Building a Startup? Learn from success stories of industry leaders
#5I clicked on a couple of the stories I know well from first-hand experience and found a lot of mistakes. This is a neat idea but if it's just assembling headlines it will miss the insights that would actually help founders.
Agreed on the content part, for now this is just generally available info from tech blogs and wiki. Would appreciate some contribution from people knowing from first-hand experience.
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#6Nice project but the content doesn't match your headline. This is a collection of 30,000ft facts that would be more suited to a boilerplate "our company history" on a corporate website. There's no insight or learning to be had here about how each company reached these milestones.
Collecting genuine insights in one place could be pretty useful!
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#7I clicked on a couple of the stories I know well from first-hand experience and found a lot of mistakes. This is a neat idea but if it's just assembling headlines it will miss the insights that would actually help founders.
I love the ui, but I completely discounted the info after reading ebay's story. It went something like ebay hired meg whitman to run the company as it had 4.7m a year in revenue/profit(forgot which).
Next slide, ~6months later company goes public making founders immediate billionaires.
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#8hm, isn't trying to learn from success stories a mistake called "survivor bias" ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias