It's an interesting question, but I don't know of any books that specialize on the mistakes of founders/projects, save for the Mythical Man Month [1] by Fred Br

It's an interesting question, but I don't know of any books that specialize on the mistakes of founders/projects, save for the Mythical Man Month [1] by Fred Brooks. HN does get a lot of "X is closing down" submissions, and some of them give interesting reasons for why the company didn't make it. On a general level, there are usually more ways to make fatal mistakes than there are ways to make things successful. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month