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Re:The Decline And Fall Of Flowtab, A Startup Story by zach on Saturday August 31, 2013 @01:37PM (#6307428)
Great postmortem. These kinds of high-altitude narratives, which describe the overall lifecycle and tell the key stories, are utterly fascinating, success or failure. When you're so focused on something, then discover parallel narratives to your experience, you gain perspective that's useful and even emotionally valuable.

They're very common within the game development world, after becoming a regular, beloved feature of Game Developer Magazine (now defunct). Here's a big list of them, perfect for a Saturday afternoon:

http://www.pixelprospector.com/the-big-list-of-postmortems/

Is there any collection of these kinds of articles for contemporary startups, or similar postmortems that are also worth reading?

Re:The Decline And Fall Of Flowtab, A Startup Story by chrissnell on Saturday August 31, 2013 @03:24PM (#6307786)
Back in the early 2000's, it was FuckedCompany.com. It was a daily dose of layoffs and shut-downs amongst (mostly) tech startups.
Re:The Decline And Fall Of Flowtab, A Startup Story by ollieglass on Sunday September 01, 2013 @04:42PM (#6312070)
There is TechCrunch's Deadpool now. Not updated nearly as frequently as FC used to be.

http://techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/

Re:The Decline And Fall Of Flowtab, A Startup Story by mtt05001 on Saturday August 31, 2013 @04:18PM (#6307937)
Thanks, it would have been a complete waste if we didn't publish this...