I'm guessing most of you have come here through the Techcrunch post. I really mean it when I say people should share their experiences more. Too much knowledge is lost when companies or products go belly up. Why not save all of us some time. ;)
Agreed. I believe most learning in entrepreneurship comes through experience, and experience is what you get when you're not getting what you want. If learning comes through hard times and/or mistakes, we should share our experiences with each other and learn.
I'll work on a post mortem of my last business and write a follow up to this post...
Hi Paul:
It's very nice to see more and more entrepreneurs share their learning startup experience with the community. Coincidently I was also the co-founder of a location-based service called Kakiloc that we shutdown last November. I've written some thoughts about the similarities between Meetro and Kakiloc here: http://location-based.blogspot.com
Let us know what you are up to next.
Thanks - Martin
I did a write up that was similar on my last start-up, innerTee - you can find it here:
http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/2008/04/innertee-post-mortem-lessons-learned.html
Thanks again Paul for sharing your experiences.
Miles
thanks for sharing your experiences. i may not be the first to coin this term, but i do think that "failure is the new mba". Congratulations on your courage and candor.
Oh, and could you please remove the apostrophe in "mortem's" in this headline. It's just plural: mortems. Thanks.
Agreed. That was part of the reason I decided to share. Too many people get all dejected when they fail. Hell I can't say I'm super proud we shut the product down. But people shouldn't fall off the planet either and I really want to get that across.
Looking forward to your post mortem.
Hey Martin... saw your blog post on us. Thanks a lot. I'm reading up on Kakiloc right now. I'm sure its killing you too that eventually someone will crack the lbs nut.
Hi Paul: Oh yes it is sure eating a lot of my energy but I frankly think, given market conditions and the current traction that Apple is keeping: the iPhone in combination with something like FireEagle has the potential of being "the" social network to be cracked.
