Failed Startup Post-Mortems
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Failed Startup Post-Mortems
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Re: Failed Startup Post-Mortems
#2Great idea. Would be useful to have a summary of the business model at the top of each article. For example #68 Overto I've got no idea what they did and I want to know before reading about why they failed.
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#3Amazing idea! Is it possible to export this to a PDF or Kindle format?
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#4Amazing 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)
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#5There are some interesting stories in here (check out the condom key-chain one), but it would be nice if they were broken down by industry, or at least didn't have quite so many service-offered-over-web/new-blogging-service stories. Maybe its just that there are so many of those these days? It makes me wonder if anyone reading this has some information breaking down startup failure rates by industry or sector... perhaps with average capitalization and length of operation before failure. It would make sense to me that the typical cat-video-sharing startup might have a much higher failure rate, but lower capital cost and years invested, than say, genomics startups or solar power startups. It might be good to see how gift stores, enterprise software or financial services fit in between those extremes.
Thanks for posting them here. This is great HN content.
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#6Did you obtain the permission of the authors to republish their content like this?
And if so, did you leave out stories that may be of interest? Then I'd suggest you link those on a separate list.
And if you did not obtain permission then you probably should!
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#7I'd also add Everpix as well: http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-d...
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#8Most 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 the economy but building a solution looking for a problem.
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#9Twitpic is actually not dead
http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/18/6445597/twitpic-says-it-wo...
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#10Could someone use this as training data to just generate them automatically?