Comments on: Startups do fail. What’s New? http://vijaysblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/startups-do-fail-whats-new/ a perspective as seen from the trenches. Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:22:31 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Anupam http://vijaysblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/startups-do-fail-whats-new/#comment-3701 Anupam Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:41:02 +0000 http://vijaysblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/startups-do-fail-whats-new/#comment-3701 To be an entrepreneur is to know that you succeed even when you fail. If you do not understand that, entrepreneurship is out of question :) To be an entrepreneur is to know that you succeed even when you fail.

If you do not understand that, entrepreneurship is out of question :)

]]> By: Small Talk: You Never Know Unless You Try : To Be Enterprising and Entreprenurial http://vijaysblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/startups-do-fail-whats-new/#comment-3616 Small Talk: You Never Know Unless You Try : To Be Enterprising and Entreprenurial Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:58:06 +0000 http://vijaysblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/startups-do-fail-whats-new/#comment-3616 [...] Some spoke about how it is important to take action and the other about the inevitability that most startups face failure. [...] [...] Some spoke about how it is important to take action and the other about the inevitability that most startups face failure. [...]

]]> By: shimul http://vijaysblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/startups-do-fail-whats-new/#comment-2986 shimul Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:28:53 +0000 http://vijaysblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/startups-do-fail-whats-new/#comment-2986 "Birds fly. Fishes Swim. Deals Fall through and Startups Fail." “Birds fly. Fishes Swim. Deals Fall through and Startups Fail.”

]]> By: sridhar http://vijaysblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/startups-do-fail-whats-new/#comment-2816 sridhar Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:21:54 +0000 http://vijaysblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/startups-do-fail-whats-new/#comment-2816 Vijay Its always something new i derive out of your writing. "It was simple. Success in a startup is an anamoly. The natural route is failure." Its the startup era, and now its time we realize there should be a Dead pool era, where not many startups succeeded, as we speak more about the ecosystem involved alongside with proto, its unfortunate to glorify the failed startups on tech blogs, not even a single tech blog, has discussed why did the startup fail, or how not to make same mistakes, if a startup of a search engines fame fails, is it a easy way to say, don't' start another search engines ??. My mentor always said three things. Supply > Reply > Apply Supply > those people who gather more information elsewhere and they keep supplying you with good/bad deeds, its like bloggers who supply real set of information Reply > There are another set of people who keep replying for every supply it happens, it might make some sense or sometimes it might not, its like people replying on blogs Apply > Its the individual, who would like to apply his thoughts, his imagination, his unconquered dreams, exactly s start up should be where you apply Sri... www.yulop.com Vijay

Its always something new i derive out of your writing.

“It was simple. Success in a startup is an anamoly. The natural route is failure.”

Its the startup era, and now its time we realize there should be a Dead pool era, where not many startups succeeded, as we speak more about the ecosystem involved alongside with proto, its unfortunate to glorify the failed startups on tech blogs, not even a single tech blog, has discussed why did the startup fail, or how not to make same mistakes, if a startup of a search engines fame fails, is it a easy way to say, don’t’ start another search engines ??.

My mentor always said three things.

Supply > Reply > Apply

Supply >

those people who gather more information elsewhere and they keep supplying you with good/bad deeds, its like bloggers who supply real set of information

Reply >
There are another set of people who keep replying for every supply it happens, it might make some sense or sometimes it might not, its like people replying on blogs

Apply >

Its the individual, who would like to apply his thoughts, his imagination, his unconquered dreams, exactly s start up should be where you apply

Sri…
http://www.yulop.com

]]> By: Rajiv Renganathan http://vijaysblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/startups-do-fail-whats-new/#comment-2810 Rajiv Renganathan Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:48:36 +0000 http://vijaysblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/startups-do-fail-whats-new/#comment-2810 I agree completely with your opinion about successful is tough and failure should not be a surprise. However, I don't think it is "big hoopla" in the blogs. It is just a concern/thought about the "trough" after a "crest". - Rajiv I agree completely with your opinion about successful is tough and failure should not be a surprise. However, I don’t think it is “big hoopla” in the blogs. It is just a concern/thought about the “trough” after a “crest”.

- Rajiv

]]> By: Varun D http://vijaysblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/startups-do-fail-whats-new/#comment-2806 Varun D Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:30:52 +0000 http://vijaysblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/startups-do-fail-whats-new/#comment-2806 Wonderful and much needed post! Wonderful and much needed post!

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