Once you take money, the clock starts ticking

Re:Once you take money, the clock starts ticking by melling on Saturday February 25, 2012 @10:44PM (#3634726)

It would be great to know which companies were on to something but simply ran out of money. Someone else could take the same idea and try it with a smaller budget and be more focused from the start.

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Re:Once you take money, the clock starts ticking by staunch on Saturday February 25, 2012 @10:53PM (#3634745)

Doubt it would work out that way most of the time. You wouldn't have the same experience/knowledge/insight.

The same people could probably re-do a company smarter though. Foursquare is Dodgeball 2.0. Twitter is sort of Blogger evolved.

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Re:Once you take money, the clock starts ticking by wallflower on Sunday February 26, 2012 @12:36AM (#3634919)

> Twitter is sort of Blogger evolved

I think you nailed it.

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Re:Once you take money, the clock starts ticking by talkingquickly on Sunday February 26, 2012 @06:02AM (#3635340)

I agree it would be interesting but it does assume there is such a thing as being "on to something" which could be separated from ability to execute.

A massive part of success is execution and a big part of that is being able to work out what you can achieve within whatever financial constraints exist.

I guess one potential way of generating some data might be to look for startups which were gaining significant traction but then ran out of cash?

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