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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

October 3rd, 2010 the Chubby Team 48 Comments. We did find some specific industry verticals where the model works (some high schools, some boxing and mixed martial arts events, some exclusive conferences), but not enough to warrant a large market and an independent company. Too much PR, too early. Quora says: October 4, 2010 at.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

Have you personally visited the Content Creator forums and read through the PR thread? When new changes roll out that aren't anticipated or expected - like the whole PR deal that became a PR mess - people PANIC. PR is even worse - last week I did 200 or so and found 10 UFI and AP items available to minors.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. Kinda muddies the waters from a PR perspective, and quite possibly with the folk at Sand Hill.

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