Comments on: Story of two failed startups – Developing in a vacuum never works.

By: karan

karan — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:03:16 +0000

well I agree its a stupid portal.. but he has juiced it up real nice.. more than 20k members in quite a short period of time..

By: bhavin

bhavin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:26:57 +0000

50 lakhs for a stupid portal like that? I guess that’s a bull shit info.

anyways, I see most of the startups just building a tech product and not really a business product (which Ashish subtly pointed out in his last proto post)

By: Vardaan

Vardaan — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:15:25 +0000

Worth full insight over startups shutting down, even the non-web startups end-up dead and reason- lack of long term planning, poor PR policies and most important lag behind in adapting fast changing technology pace

…let me put it this way more than 50% web startups in India do what US counterparts have done decade ago..still they deceive themselves.. thinking they would be next Twitter or Friendfeed or so

By: karan

karan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:48:21 +0000

and some startups cash out early.. I know this guy who owns linkedzone ( http://www.linkedzone.com ) . He started only last year and sold it for 50 lakhs just now. He says its enough money for him.

By: Sameer

Sameer — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:36:42 +0000

Don’t we always say “failure” is a dirty word in India, and thats one of the reasons for lack of entrepreneurial endeavour ?

Yes they may have have failed, but they tried. Lets invite them to write about what they learned, would have done differently, yet applaud them for a dream and the desire and guts to pursue them.

Tho yeah, your points are sure totally worth following. PR – early – is a major sin. Also the part about a lot of minor sprints!

By: Vijay Rayapati

Vijay Rayapati — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:16:50 +0000

Hi Ashish,

Visit my blog and read the following post:) , a story of another bootstrapping startup failure.

http://vijay-rayapati.blogspot.com/2008/06/what-we-are-and-what-we-dream-to-be-why.html