2 Things I've Learned from other People's Failed Startups

Posted by haseman on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @06:01PM
from the self-post dept.

1) Starting a tech company is hard.

2) Writing about a failed tech company is easy.

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Re:2 Things I've Learned from other People's Failed Startups by pclark on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @06:29PM (#838146)

starting a tech company is easy. succeeding is hard.

almost all the failed tech stories are:

we didn't launch early enough so didn't start the conversation with our users fast enough. we built something people didn't want. we gave up.

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Re:2 Things I've Learned from other People's Failed Startups by CyberFonic on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @07:56PM (#838276)

3) People whose startup failed, thought they could copy successful startups without putting in the hard yards!

But .... hard work alone doesn't guarantee success, you need to create value, solve a problem make something that people want and MARKET. If people don't know about your product/service and the benefits of getting involved, they're not going to become paying customers.

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Re:2 Things I've Learned from other People's Failed Startups by jackzombie on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @09:44AM (#839217)

Starting a company is all about creating value. First you must be able to identify a void. Second you must solve the problem of how to fill that void.

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