Not enough stories get told about startups that don't make it.
@jakefuentes and @brelig recently shared a bunch of hard-won and incredibly insightful lessons from their attempt at building @Cascadeio (a data logic and analysis tool). Some of my favorite takeaways:
On taking on… Show more
Not enough stories get told about startups that don't make it. @jakefuentes and @brelig recently shared a bunch of hard-won and incredibly insightful lessons from their attempt at building @Cascadeio (a data logic and analysis tool). Some of my favorite takeaways: On taking on… Show more
David had identified his leap-of-faith questions explicitly at the outset and, more important, had made quantitative predictions about each of them. It would not have been difficult for him to declare success retroactively from that initial venture. After all, some of his metrics, such as activation, were doing quite well. In terms of gross metrics
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Nobody talks about failure in Silicon Valley, yet 90% of startups fail.
Why?
3 yrs ago, @neerajberry and I shut down @Sprig, which raised $60M from @GreylockVC + @socialcapital & grew to $20m revenue.
Then, it all fell apart.
For an honest story about failure,
**Read on**
