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Imagine if more startups were this open about their process. I'd love to see Sergey write "What went right, What went wrong, and here's how we made it through"
by e1ven 19y ago
Imagine if more startups were this open about their process. I'd love to see Sergey write "What went right, What went wrong, and here's how we made it through"
We see this occasionally on the company's Blog, or in a book written years after launch, but I'd love to see a tradition like this catch on more widely.
- slackerIII 19y agoI totally agree -- I've been slogging through writing down as much as I can about Audiogalaxy here: http://www.spiteful.com/the-audiogalaxy-chronicles/ http://www.spiteful.com/the-audiogalaxy-chronicles/ I haven't gotten around to writing anything about FolderShare yet. Maybe in a few more years :)
- jcl 19y agoOne problem with these postmortems is that they are biased: successful products are more likely to get postmortems than unsuccessful ones, partly because the public is more interested in products they have heard of and partly because the creators would rather not publicize failure. But a postmortem of an unsuccessful product made by otherwise-competent developers could be more instructive than a postmortem of a successful product, especially in the "what went wrong" section. The book "Dreaming in Code" feels like such a postmortem, and I think I learned more from it than from the various Game Developer postmortems I have read.
- pchristensen 19y agoI personally would be interested in reading a "Founders at Work" style book about successful entrepreneurs who have had earlier or later failures. I don't know of too many off the top of my head though.