Startup mistakes: Lessons from failed startups

Re:Startup mistakes: Lessons from failed startups by inetknght on Thursday August 20, 2020 @12:40PM (#24225135)

My initial thoughts:

> First hand lessons

> over eighty failed startups

I dunno... if you've got first hand experience in 80 startups then maybe their failures are because you didn't spend enough time in any single one of them.

Then I read the article:

> We've analyzed why +80 startups have failed

If you've analyzed the startups then I really don't think that counts as "first hand".

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Re:Startup mistakes: Lessons from failed startups by dang on Thursday August 20, 2020 @03:00PM (#24227232)

Ok we'll take the hands out of the title above.

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Re:Startup mistakes: Lessons from failed startups by nothinghere789 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @12:45PM (#24225228)

first hand means you got the info from the first or original source.

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Re:Startup mistakes: Lessons from failed startups by RSZC on Thursday August 20, 2020 @12:51PM (#24225346)

That's an unusual definition of first hand...

Here's Merriam-Webster's:

> obtained by, coming from, or being direct personal observation or experience

These lessons are not from the OP's direct personal observation or experience.

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Re:Startup mistakes: Lessons from failed startups by jandrese on Thursday August 20, 2020 @03:00PM (#24227238)

Isn't that second hand? You interviewed the people with first hand knowledge.

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