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- lubos 16y agoWell, if you start a company and things will go way too easy for you, it's hard not to become overconfident which will eventually lead into ultimate failure. so is it surprising all these great companies had difficult beginnings? not at all, it made founders humble, which is never a bad thing.
- RyanMcGreal 16y agoThe web server is failing. :/
- sahillavingia 16y agoIt's loading here, albeit slowly (though I'm in Singapore right now, which means all sites load slow!). I'll ask my host, sorry about this.
- quanticle 16y agoWe must also be careful not to go in the opposite direction. All too many founders bet everything they have on an unviable business model, a solution looking for a problem, or something equally foolhardy. Then, when the expected revenue doesn't come about, they go all-in leveraging themselves via credit cards and bank loans to try push their business over the top. In the end, rather than being screwed when the business collapses, they end up really screwed.
- noahlt 16y agoAs the author points out, all those success stories are known because the worked out. He then goes on to lament the companies that failed because their founders gave up too early. But there are also companies that failed even though their founders never gave up, and we never hear about those, either.
- randall 16y agoI think the article meanders a bit, but it does provide some good starting points for people who might not have known about how close-to-death a lot of companies come. http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272180383 http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272180383 - Brian Chesky (AirBnB) tells it himself.
- kmak 16y agoSurvivor bias in full power here.
- Dylanlacey 16y agoI have to say that, if the Fedex story is true, he is one of the worst leaders I have ever encountered.