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Startup Funeral: Honoring The Lessons Of Failure [Video]

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Recently several entrepreneurs in New York City got together to do just that, holding the inaugural Startup Funeral to honor the memory of three dead technology companies. Three ex-execs spoke and 100 or so in the audience listened and commemorated. Failure gets a lot of praise in the tech world. After Grieving, Starting Over.

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Startup Funeral: Honoring The Lessons Of Failure [Video]

ReadWriteStart

Recently several entrepreneurs in New York City got together to do just that, holding the inaugural Startup Funeral to honor the memory of three dead technology companies. Three ex-execs spoke and 100 or so in the audience listened and commemorated. Failure gets a lot of praise in the tech world. After Grieving, Starting Over.

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Startup Funeral: Honoring The Lessons Of Failure [Video]

ReadWriteStart

Recently several entrepreneurs in New York City got together to do just that, holding the inaugural Startup Funeral to honor the memory of three dead technology companies. Three ex-execs spoke and 100 or so in the audience listened and commemorated. Failure gets a lot of praise in the tech world. After Grieving, Starting Over.

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Venture Capital Funding and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove

Up and Running

To draw titular inspiration from a New York Magazine article entitled Ellen Pao and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove (we’ll talk more about Pao later on), I entered into this topic less with the desire to try to “prove” a specific point, but rather to explore an issue that continues to rise to the top of conversation in the entrepreneurial space.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

When my Japanese husband died at a young age almost 16 years ago, I had been doing medical writing for a major New York Hospital and also helping him with his documentary films for Japanese and American public television. So I sat at home for a year to teach myself about optics and ended up founding Light with my cofounder in 2013.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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In their startup post-mortem, Nouncer discussed their decision to be in NY as one that hurt their company stating : In my case, New York didn’t lack money, community, able workers, or smart people with good advice. I can count on one hand the number of people I’ve met in New York meetups and events that fit this description.

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Lessons Learned: Built to learn

Startup Lessons Learned

My cofounders and I would hash out nuances and details almost every day, re-drawing diagram after diagram on the whiteboard. If it doesnt involve new facts, it doesnt count as learning. MeganMurray : "Behind every technical problem is a human problem. It will be a more-technical version of the Expo talk. Expo, never fear.