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Re:What Kills Startups? A study. by bfe on Monday August 29, 2011 @06:23PM (#2939312)
Given the mention of Webvan and the sheer number of startups in their study, it would seem their sample group does include a significant cohort from the Bubble. Trying to derive generalized rules governing startup outcomes is tough when those rules inherently keep changing.
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Re:What Kills Startups? A study. by dirtyaura on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @02:41AM (#2940396)
Webvan is the first example of failed startup in Steve Blank's Four Steps to Epiphany. I think Startup Genome project was heavily influenced by Blank's book, so it might just that, a familiar example, not a data point.
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Re:What Kills Startups? A study. by maxmarmer on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @04:00AM (#2940527)
That's correct. All startups in our dataset we're at least active between Feb 2010 and May 2010 when we started collecting data.
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