14 Startup Postmortems
Stories of failure and lessons learned
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1 min readJan 26, 2014
Product Hunt is a celebration of products but the reality is, most will fail. Lately there appears to be several public postmortems of founders sharing their failures.
I have tremendous respect for those that vulnerably share their mistakes and lessons learned. Although people, technologies, and markets change, we can learn from these stories.
Here is a collection of fantastic postmortems I’ve saved over the past several months:
- Everpix — Out of the picture: why the world’s best photo startup is going out of business
- Flud — Why Startups Fail: A Postmortem For Flud, The Social Newsreader
- Sonar — Postmortem of a Venture-backed Startup
- Plancast — The Uphill Battle Of Social Event Sharing: A Post-Mortem for Plancast
- Flowtab — The Decline And Fall Of Flowtab, A Startup Story
- Formspring — Formspring — A Postmortem
- Wesabe — Why Wesabe Lost to Mint
- Gowalla — Play by your own rules
- EventVue — EventVue post-mortem
- PlayCafe — 10 lessons from a failed startup
- Untitled Partners — Lessons from a startup failure
- Teamometer — Startup lessons learned from my failed startup
- Outbox — Outbox is Shutting Down—A Note of Gratitude
- Drawquest — Today my startup failed