Startup Failures: Five Ways To Crash Your Startup, Which Will You Pick?
November 14, 2006
When talking about startups, it is interesting to talk about market forces, competition, product design and a variety of other things that founders believe they need to really…
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Beware The Web 2.0 Walking Dead
October 6, 2006
Back in Bubble 1.0, um, I mean Web 1.0, when a startup failed to take off, it generally died a relatively clean and definitive death. We all knew the company was dead because the…
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Web 2.0: Soft Landings vs. Hard Crashes
September 11, 2006
I’ve gotten a bit of criticism for a couple of my prior articles about the Web 2.0 startup crashes of Kiko and HuckABuck, both of which listed their companies for sale on eBay. [Note:…
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Web 2.0 Crashes: Another Startup Being Sold On eBay
September 7, 2006
First, there was Kiko (which was widely covered all over the blogosphere, including here at OnStartups.com). Now, we have HuckABuck being offered on eBay:…
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Hindsight 2.0: Lessons From A Failed Web 2.0 Startup
August 16, 2006
Certain circles are buzzing with the news that Kiko is on sale on eBay. I first heard the news last week, but it wasn’t public until today so I didn’t want to write about it. For…
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