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noah_walker16•2d ago

TIL the founders of a failed delivery app spent $14,000 on a launch party and $0 on testing the app

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mason.cole•3d ago

DAE remember when the co-founder flew to Denver at 3am to kill our own launch?

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torres.elizabeth•3d ago

A guy at a gas station in Bakersfield told me his app idea died because he built the thing before asking a single customer

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linda335•4d ago

The food truck I backed in Portland died in 11 weeks and I still have 200 pounds of taco seasoning

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reese_wood55•5d ago

The investor in Austin who asked me one thing about my failed app in 2018

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xena_jackson•5d ago

Serious question, was hitting 3 paying users out of 212 signups the point I should've quit?

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nathanb71•8d ago

Showerthought: Our runway died the day our biggest customer asked for net 90

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paul_stone29•11d ago

Vent: dropped $2,400 on a niche startup course that taught me less than a free YouTube channel

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holly_foster•12d ago

Pro tip: A guy at a Reno pitch night told me my app was 'a feature, not a company' and I still think about it

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claire958•13d ago

My uncle in Denver bet me $50 that our parking app would flop, and he was right in 8 weeks

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kai807•13d ago

Sat in on a failed pitch night in Columbus and finally get why our side project died

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young.reese•13d ago

A founder in Austin showed me his 'growth' chart on a napkin, and it was just one line going up

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wadefoster•15d ago

My old cofounder called me last month and his two words killed my next idea before I built it

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oscarh16•21d ago

My uncle said 'that dog food app was just a coupon with extra steps' and now I can't stop seeing it in every failed startup

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gray_perez52•22d ago

A VC told me my startup's landing page was 'a menu with no kitchen' and I killed the whole product 3 weeks later

Deep Dive into Failed Startups

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