Ask HN: Are there any resources that can give information on failed startups?
I don't want to sound weird
Suggest me some resources that will give information on failed startups.
Or tell me what were you learnings if you had one
Suggest me some resources that will give information on failed startups.
Or tell me what were you learnings if you had one
I never worked directly for one, just 1099 but in general I'd suggest trying to run a startup like a small business.
(I've seen a LOT of small businesses rise and fall, often as I was sitting in them overtipping the poor workers stuck in the muck)
I'd suggest looking at the profiles of founders on places like Wikipedia -- then search out the names of the companies whose names you do not recognize.
Then suss out why the company failed -- was it a bad idea? Were they ratfucked by someone with worse technology but better... connections?
Have you seen that Silicon Valley scene where the guy shouts no revenue?
Be the opposite of that guy.
Be socially libertarian in the sense of hiring skilled, kind people... but also be as stingy as the types who used to invade my personal space and say "Reagan" whenever you didn't sufficiently name drop someone from their personality cult.
That means things like wanting to increase revenue, decrease bandwidth.
(I see so many people using these elaborate frameworks to make flashy sites for bullshit startups, rather than a clean and pretty plain static site. Vi not emacs, XFCE not Knome or KDE... income early rather than forever hitting up the Saudis... that kind of thing)
Anyways... TLDR: Look up the failings that came before a site like say... Facebook... both in terms of rivals and previous company attempts by the founders.