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Crashpad – The Podcast for Failed Startups
- vivekjames99 7y agoI just started a podcast interviewing founders and employees of startups that were crushed by the market. We just released episode #1 with the first employee of the first ride-sharing startup, Sidecar, that ended up falling to Uber and Lyft. Enjoy!
- mdorazio 7y agoI love the idea of this podcast, thanks for sharing. This was a great first episode that showed a few things you don't often hear on HN: - Having the best product on the market guarantees nothing. You can easily get destroyed by competitors with better marketing, better prices, or a more appealing business model - Being first to market also guarantees nothing. In fact, it can often put you in a bad position because it takes a large amount of time and effort to figure out what works, and significantly less to copy what works from someone else and change the business proposition in some way - Pleasing the right customers is more important than pleasing your users. In the case of ridesharing, the #1 thing drivers (the customers who make the platform possible) want is to make more money. Missing this meant ceding driver share to competitors
- vivekjames99 7y agoThank you! This feedback really means the world to me. Please share with others, as I think the insights like what you've described are incredibly important to VCs and founders alike.