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Six Companies That Did Not Survive 2010
- andrewljohnson 16y ago2 companies that didn't survive, 4 companies that never were.
- rsoto 16y agoIsn't this ironic that it's on yahoo.com?
- atomical 16y agoIt is not ironic. Yahoo survived 2010.
- joelhaasnoot 16y agoThey're not exactly doing great either, so some sort of hint of irony is definately present...
- megadouche 16y agoyou are an idiot
- T_S_ 16y agoYes it is ironic. Might be ironic indefinitely. Their problem is not about competence, revenue, or profits. They have all three. It's about investor expectations, plus a dose of envy and greed.
- retube 16y agoA company with revenues of $6bn/year and profit margin 20% is hardly ironic.
- citricsquid 16y agooh god please learn to format properly. I wanted to skim the article, identify the companies they "profiled" and then read about the ones I'm interested in, but I can't because they haven't used any sort of heading style... :( Even bolding the titles would be enough.
- d2viant 16y agoThe source article is formatted much better: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/business/smallbusiness/06sbiz.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/business/smallbusiness/06s...
- brudgers 16y agoWill anyone miss Saturn? http://jalopnik.com/5724254/goodbye-saturn-thanks-for-the-ride http://jalopnik.com/5724254/goodbye-saturn-thanks-for-the-ri...
- Gimpson 16y agoMy 1993 Saturn SC2 is my favorite of the cars I've owned. (Granted I'm not much of a car person.) I was a bit sad at their passing, though I gather they were no longer the company they were founded as when they finally hung it up.
- asanwal 16y ago25 startup failure post-mortems (note: not all from 2010) original thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1755831 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1755831
- AlexBlom 16y agoThe biggest lesson is for Yahoo to format their articles