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@post-mortems
I finally said it, my startup failed. Fuck. I felt like I was coming out of the closet when I first stated it aloud to my co-founder. We both knew for months it was not working out, but we never explicitly defined our situation as a failed one. Now that the elephant in the room has a name, we’ll...
"Entrepreneurs: build your product, not someone else’s. The most successful products execute on a vision that aligns with their product’s and users’ goals. It’s hard to put blinders on when your stats are slowly coming down and you see other startups skyrocketing around you with various tactics and strategies. For the love of god, put them on. It’s the only way to build what you should instead of chasing others’ ideas."
"What we learned is that people enjoy drawing penises. Multiple ones. The system was not prepared to handle that."
"What is Project Orca? Well, this is what they told us: Project ORCA is a massive undertaking – the Republican Party’s newest, unprecedented and most technologically advanced plan to win the 2012 presidential election. Pretty much everything in that sentence is false. The 'massive undertaking' is true, however. It would take a lot of planning, training and coordination to be done successfully (oh, we'll get to that in a second). This wasn't really the GOP's effort, it was Team Romney's. And perhaps 'unprecedented' would fit if we're discussing failure."
I can assure you their death began several years before they were actually successful.
Did MySpace’s Demise Have Anything To Do With Bad Growth Hacking? - Forbes
a) Great line and post.
b) Jarring and super interesting to see a Quora reply used as an article on Forbes.
(via pieratt)
"The one reason that stuck out at the very beginning was that we needed to be on iPhone — it’s just not possible to bootstrap a new social network entirely on iPad, at least not yet."
"It is a case study of what can go wrong when a nimble, innovative startup gets gobbled up by a behemoth that doesn't share its values. What happened to Flickr? The same thing that happened to so many other nimble, innovative startups who sold out for dollars and bandwidth: Yahoo."
"Two years is a long time, especially when spent building a startup from the ground up. My most exciting professional adventure to date has reached its conclusion last month when I decided to pull the plug on Nouncer, my attempt at building a microblogging web service. The Nouncer story started with an idea and hunt for logo, evolved into a business with some general directions about a financial model, and materialized into a big chunk of code – 150,509 lines to be exact."
"One thing is certain: Success is never as easy as it seems when someone else talks about it, and failure is rarely as dismal as it seems either."
"This is a story about how 2 enterprising web developers quit their jobs at CNET Networks and built an enterprise level community driven site complete with all the modern "web 2.0" bells and whistles in almost exactly two months on the smallest possible budget with open source software. It covers the planning, technology, accounting and business decisions we made along the way and is meant to be an honest portrayal of the realities of opening up your own shop and what you will need to do."
"Users don’t want Microsoft to improve Web search. They find things just fine on Google. What they want is a better email program, a better calendar, a better Office suite, dare I say a better operating system."
Unfortunately, we have decided to shut down EventVue. You can read our founder’s letter to customers and friends here.
We’re very thankful for all the support that EventVue has received. Many people have helped us, cheered for us, and challenged us.
We also deeply believe in the power...
"NewsTilt was a YCombinator-backed startup which aimed to provide services to help journalists become entrepreneurs and earn a living off their work online. It closed down in July 2010, a total of 8 months after it was founded."
"The moment that I finally realized something was fundamentally changing about how people would share and discover video online was when the Lazy Sunday SNL video exploded and took YouTube up with it."
"There is one clear lesson from Digg's sale: the technology that powered a once-massive social network is worth about $500,000. All the rest of the value derives from the people that use it."
"Is he [Stephen Elop] the worst CEO ever - I seriously doubt it. Â However by deciding to take the easier way out, throwing everything away and counting on Microsoft to solve the software side, rather than fixing a broken software development organisation, then making a catastrophic comms error, he has given himself a really good chance of going down in history as one of the most value destructive CEOs ever."
