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6 points by Jaggu on Oct 5, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments
I am looking for list of failed startup. Does anyone know how to find companies which are failed or which are about to give up?



The TechCrunch Deadpool (http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool) is one place to start.


/agreed


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FuckedCompany.com (http://www.fuckedcompany.com/index.html), though it isn't posting new companies anymore. The author wrote a book called "F'd Companies" that chronicled some of the worst dot-bomb era flameouts.


CNET's list is classic (if that's what you're looking for). It includes such classic one-hit wonders as: Boo.com, Webvan, and Pets.com. It's a good list to learn that spending lots of money quickly on marketing will not make a great idea better.

I would also suggest reading: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070601/features-how-to-kill-a-.... It's cool to see how Friendster didn't win in the war for US social networking (even though southeastern Asia loves it).


Well I can add my little web site UseTheSource to the list of dead ideas. It's "Digg" but just for code.

www.usethesource.com.

John.


what is the list for?




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