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Re:Start up review - case studies of succesful internet star... by nostrademons on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @06:05PM (#411)
Is there anyone doing case studies of *unsuccessful* internet startups? The successful ones are helpful, but it's easy to fall prey to survivorship bias, i.e. there's no guarantee that any commonalities have to do with them being *successful* rather than *internet* or *startups*. A group of unsuccessful startups would be a nice control group, and maybe then we could draw some better conclusions about what makes a startup successful.
Re:Start up review - case studies of succesful internet star... by Terror9 on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @07:15PM (#424)
I second that question.
Re:Start up review - case studies of succesful internet star... by sharpshoot on Thursday February 22, 2007 @06:15AM (#480)
Sounds like a good plan - putting together a wiki of unsuccessful startups and their lessons. Anyone read Boohoo? the story of Boo.com?