Decoding the Deadpool: How to Tell When a Startup Has Failed

Re:Decoding the Deadpool: How to Tell When a Startup Has Failed by ElissaShevinsky on Saturday February 16, 2013 @10:42PM (#5234101)

What are the implications of Techstars under-reporting the deaths of their startups? Not to knock 100K in notes (and the other benefits of being in a reputable accelerator) but these statistics vastly overstate the positive impact of Techstars.

As for Crunchbase, they could do a reasonably good job of catching the death of startups by running a check every six months for basic social media updates. While it might be premature to call a quiet startup dead, they could include a line to call a startup "inactive."

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Re:Decoding the Deadpool: How to Tell When a Startup Has Failed by adventured on Saturday February 16, 2013 @11:36PM (#5234206)

I think the issue is that the cheap cost of operating infrastructure for most small tech startups means a lot of deadpool candidates continue to live on longer than they should. The duration of existence might expand courtesy of how far $100k (etc) goes, but the number of failures will trend toward the average given enough startups.

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