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I study failed startups and reveal why 90% of startups FAIL ☠️ . Learn from their mistakes and …. DON’T be one of them 🚫. Lessons for the founders👇
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🔥🔥🔥 Startup Obituary : Kite 🔥🔥🔥. An AI coding companion that was way ahead of its time and failed with venture backed funding. What went wrong? @danscholnick @kvogt @drewhouston @mlevchin @joshuareeves @eshear @natfriedman @photomatt @JTLonsdale
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Experiment Boldly, But Plan for Profit.🚀 Sip’s innovative curation captivated users, but lacking a clear revenue model led to its downfall. Build your vision with a plan for profit!.🔗 #StartupLessons #Monetization #Innovation
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Tomorrow's Startup Obituary post is about AI company that had great mission, founder and backing and success- yet it closed down. Find out about L1ght in tomorrow's edition of StartupObituary
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⚠️ Essential’s lesson:.You can’t out-design distribution. No marketing = no momentum. 🔗 #startupadvice #growth
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The market turned. Investors ghosted. The burn rate didn’t stop. Reali collapsed in months. 🔗 #startupcrash #vc
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Lesson's from Sam Altman's first startup, Loopt, in tomorrow's newsletter at StartupObituary .com
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Zume had a robot named Pepe. Another named Marta. But no one cared—because the pizza sucked. 👉 UX > gimmicks. #ProductFirst #StartupAdvice
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The courts shut them down. The crowd lifted them up. 🧑⚖️ Legal defeat. 🙌 Community support. ❤️ Never underestimate user loyalty. 🔗 #BuildInPublic #Startup
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The anti-iPhone, built by Android’s creator. Essential was sleek, open, pure Android—and unsellable. 🔗 #techfail #smartphones #founderlessons
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📈 Byju’s went all-in on acquisitions, buying Aakash and WhiteHat Jr. But integrating these businesses proved costly and complex. The lesson? Scale smarter, not faster. 🔗 #StartupGrowth #LessonsFromFailure
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🔥 🔥 Just published 🔥 🔥 . Startup Obituary : Olive . AI Must Work, Not Just Sound Good.🤖 Olive AI promised full automation, but human intervention was still needed. Don’t overhype tech—deliver real value. 🔗 #AIHype #ProductExecution #StartupLessons
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🎯 Lesson: Validate before you scale. Fast’s rapid growth without solid market fit strained operations. What startups can learn 👉 #StartupAdvice #Growth.
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⚠️ 90% of startups die —but yours doesn’t have to. Most founders don’t see the warning signs until it’s too late 💀. We do startup post-mortems so you don’t make the same fatal mistakes. 📩 Join...
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Beautiful design ≠ market success. Essential had style—but no distribution, no marketing, and no escape from controversy. 🔗 #startupwisdom #VC #hardware
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Andy Rubin invented Android. Then he raised $330M to reinvent the phone. It was beautiful. Bold. And then—Essential shut down. 🔗 #startup #hardware #founderlessons
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Your Best Feature Can Be Replaced.📞 Free international calls made Skype famous, but WhatsApp & FaceTime made it easier. Never rely on a single unique feature. 🔗 CompetitiveEdge #ProductStrategy #StartupLessons
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📱 The Essential Phone launched with a titanium frame, ceramic back, and the world’s first notch. Sales? Just 150,000 units. 🔗 #startuplife #productlaunch #techhistory
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Every startup should aim for balance: Marketing, product development, and customer experience ALL matter. ⚖️ InVision’s imbalance was its undoing. #StartupSuccess.🔗
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💥 Raised $330M.💎 Unicorn status pre-launch.📦 Sprint-only distribution.End result? Shutdown in 2020. 🔗 #founderfailures #startup
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🛑 Anonymous platforms are powerful but risky. Kik learned this the hard way—should you?.Details:
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🔥 Essential was hardware’s heartbreak. Everything looked right—until it wasn’t. 🔗 #hardwarestartups #productfailures
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