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I doubt these post-mortems are accurate. If you can't create a successful company, what makes you think you know why a company was unsuccessful? It's just mor
by codex 13y ago
I doubt these post-mortems are accurate. If you can't create a successful company, what makes you think you know why a company was unsuccessful? It's just more mental masturbation. Even if the failure mode is identified, it doesn't help you with the next startup, as most of the time humans work by trial and error. A failure doesn't teach most how to succeed, just how not to fail in that exact way.
- simonjester 13y agoStill an outside view is usually quite objective and can pinpoint issues that weren't easily apparent at all to someone inside the project.
- bryan_rasmussen 13y agothis is the obverse of the idea that just because you succeed does not necessarily know why you succeeded. You do not have the full view in either case.