Autopsy

Autopsy

A collection of post-mortems & lessons from failed startups

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Over 2000 failed company submissions covering founder stories and company failure analysis. To continue helping the startup ecosystem, submit your autopsy today: https://startup-research.typeform.com/to/fOrakq
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Violeta Nedkova
This is the best thing ever. :) P.S. Pretty sure you can collect more, though. There have been huge curations of post-mortems, even @rrhoover had one.
Niral JP
@v4violetta is this on PH? We searched for post-mortems and added as many as we could find. If you could link me to any more that would be great :-)
Eddie Pratt
Thanks for creating and sharing. Some sobering reading here. There's so much time, money, blood, sweat and tears that has gone into these companies. The stories need to be heard. Some stories really draw you in, like the one from Chris Poole writing about Canvas/DrawQuest... "...In the past year it’s been downloaded more than 1.4 million times, and is currently used by about 25,000 people a day, and 400,000 last month alone. Retention and engagement are great. And yet we still failed." How can you not want to read more and ask yourself 'why?'
Craig Barber
Good work, great reads and the name is awesome : )
Paul Parsons
This is a great idea, there is nothing better than to learn from others to avoid making the same mistake.
Josue Gio
One of the best hunts on weekends! Thanks for share, this is the kind of experiences than anyone wants to share and a lot of to learn.
Martin Skakala
Amazing resource, should be also added to curriculum in schools! Are you guys also plan on releasing a book, or you'll just see where it will take you?
Niral JP
@mskakala perhaps, we'll know more in the next few weeks.
Nirav Chatterji
@mskakala good point. I've been searching for books with this sort of post-mortems, whether the company is successful or not. @NiralJP any plans to add successful stories, with details of their problems/ issues they had to deal with?
Niral JP
@nchatterji We're going to have successful stories in the weekly newsletter outlining problems/issues
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