failed startups

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To Let A Good Thing Die - Closing down a company

No amount of Gross Margin will keep a business running once the fire is out.

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

Lenny Rachitsky • Tweet

sari

Looking Back On Helm

giri.co

andrea

My Company Died—Learn From My Mistakes

Amanda Peyton every.to

sari

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

aandrea

something is deeply flawed