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Re:Y Combinator Failed Startups by sjtindell on Friday October 09, 2020 @06:08PM (#24734920)
As a relative outsider, I would hope being labeled as one of the biggest failures would be a mark of experience among a set that claims or claimed to uphold the “fail fast” mentality and treats failure like the learning experience it is.
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Re:Y Combinator Failed Startups by mathattack on Friday October 09, 2020 @07:58PM (#24735612)
In Walk Street if you have a $50 million blow-up your career is shot. If you have a $500 million blowup you get a second shot because you must have been somebody to be trusted with that much money.
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Re:Y Combinator Failed Startups by ZephyrBlu on Friday October 09, 2020 @06:32PM (#24735104)
"fail fast" refers to experiments, not the whole damn company.
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Re:Y Combinator Failed Startups by majormajor on Friday October 09, 2020 @06:44PM (#24735172)
A new company is almost by definition an experiment.
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Re:Y Combinator Failed Startups by derekmh on Saturday October 10, 2020 @06:37AM (#24738004)
Especially when peoples’ lives depend on it.
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