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A comment on Ask HN: Signs as an Employee of a Failing Startup?.
- Lack of investment or
- Lack of revenue
I’ve learned one thing in being a part of one unicorn and multiple failed startups: Your startup isn’t a failure until the runway runs out.
Until then, spend time with people outside of engineering especially in sales, finance and product.
Most teams like to brag about their successes so if they’re landing customers and increasing team size because of investment you’ll know.
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- Lack of investment or
- Lack of revenue
I’ve learned one thing in being a part of one unicorn and multiple failed startups: Your startup isn’t a failure until the runway runs out.
Until then, spend time with people outside of engineering especially in sales, finance and product.
Most teams like to brag about their successes so if they’re landing customers and increasing team size because of investment you’ll know.