Things I Did Wrong with My Last Startup
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Things I Did Wrong with My Last Startup
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#2I don't know if there was much you could do with a product like that. I don't know who that would appeal to. Was it basically Google Hangouts for shopping?
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#3Why not founding it again?
A crutial point of a startup success is timing. Maybe this is a case of founder's timing. Founders all the time decide to pivot or persevere. And sometimes, to quit. Why it has to be a permanent quit?
Three years and a good amount of experience laters, the founder can make it happen!
I think we may face a failed startup as something you shut down, that is not demanding any more of your time and money. But not something you must never again touch. Not dead, but hibernating.
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#4I don't know if there was much you could do with a product like that. I don't know who that would appeal to. Was it basically Google Hangouts for shopping?
Sounds like an excellent idea to me ;-)
Walk around a mall. Watch the number of people using their phones to take photos, talk to their friends about options, phoning home to check they're getting the right thing, etc.
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#5My hearty thanks to the author for being so frank about this.
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#6My hearty thanks to the author for being so frank about this.
Same. Especially for "I didn’t build an audience"
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#7I don't know if there was much you could do with a product like that. I don't know who that would appeal to. Was it basically Google Hangouts for shopping?
Sounds like an excellent idea to me ;-) Walk around a mall. Watch the number of people using their phones to take photos, talk to their friends about options, phoning home to check they're getting the right thing, etc.
They're all young teenagers. Is that a great revenue model?
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#8My hearty thanks to the author for being so frank about this.
+1 Some good info here. Thanks for posting! Things everyone puts off, but really make a difference.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like an excellent idea to me ;-) Walk around a mall. Watch the number of people using their phones to take photos, talk to their friends about options, phoning home to check they're getting the right thing, etc.
They're all young teenagers. Is that a great revenue model?
Just gotta wait out ten years to see the revenue. Which is why traditionally it's big corporations that could handle investing into advertising of the youths.
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#10Why not founding it again? A crutial point of a startup success is timing. Maybe this is a case of founder's timing. Founders all the time decide to pivot or persevere. And sometimes, to quit. Why it has to be a permanent quit? Three years and a good amount of experience laters, the founder can make it happen! I think we may face a failed startup as something you shut down, that is not demanding any more of your time…
Soneca, you are absolutely right. In this case, we shut it down, and my co-founder decided to move on. This just wasn't meant to be. After that, I decided to team up with a different friend of mine, and we are working on LaunchBit. So, while that was the end for Parrotview, it's not the end of my startup journey. :)