This has been sitting around longer than most Ask threads, so I wanted to at least offer you the following: I think this thread is not taking off because it fe

This has been sitting around longer than most Ask threads, so I wanted to at least offer you the following: I think this thread is not taking off because it feels like an interview question. And not the fun kind. So answering this question, to me, feels like a chore. Hence my meta response. I bet you'd get a better response with a more focused question. Maybe like: have you ever had a startup that totally failed? If so, in retrospect, why did it fail? Cheers.