failed startups

to learn from failures

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on-demand childcare startup poppy shuts down

Avni Patel Thompson geekwire.com

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F'D Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts

Philip Kaplan • 2 highlights

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Cover of F'D Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts

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The New 101

101.xyz

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My Company Died—Learn From My Mistakes

Amanda Peyton every.to

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Ness - Epilogue

nesswell.com

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note - shutting down

But we underestimated two things: the amount of product we would need to build to start repeatably winning, and how high switching costs would be for many of their customers. We didn’t have a clearly identifiable market force at our back, other than broad trends around collaboration and cloud-based solutions. Those trends helped enormously, but we... See more

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From @MorningBrew: "e-scooter company Bird, which became the fastest startup ever to land a $1 billion valuation, was delisted from the NYSE and is now worth $7 million. That’s less than a third of the $22 million its founder paid for a Miami mansion in 2021."

Tom Shea x.com

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something is deeply flawed

Web3 is Going Just Great

web3isgoinggreat.com

Jason Levin

Wow design platform Invision is shutting down at the end of this year. The company had >$100M in ARR as recently as 3 years ago

Tanay Jaipuria x.com

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