I kind of hoped an infographic would be about aggregate stats, not a pretty picture of six businesses. To get right down to brass tacks: - the two really succe

I kind of hoped an infographic would be about aggregate stats, not a pretty picture of six businesses. To get right down to brass tacks: - the two really successful ones are both commerce-related. We aren't comparing Facebook and MySpace, it's not really a compelling comparison. If they didn't fail because of market fit, show us people with the same idea who executed better - there are few attributes that are compared directly. They cite some good things one company did, and some unrelated bad things the other one did. Why can't we see how much funding they took side-by-side, for example? - Maybe this is a bit old, but I wouldn't really put Zynga in the 'wins' column. Which brings us to the real point; on a long enough timeline, everyone's chances of survival go to 0. The common metric for success seems to be an acquisition, or going public. We don't get a good idea of who's exited, or even on what timescale we're comparing these companies.