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Hey Jonathan - Anand from CB Insights here. Thx for the comment and for writing a great post-mortem. One distinction - we didn't republish your post. We linked

by asanwal 12y ago

Hey Jonathan - Anand from CB Insights here. Thx for the comment and for writing a great post-mortem. One distinction - we didn't republish your post. We linked out to the original post you'd written and quoted a few lines from it which we thought were particularly telling about the reasons behind & process of shutting down. That was the format we took throughout the post. Original link and a few line excerpt. Hope that makes sense.

jacquesm 12y ago
I'm not sure I'm following you. When I look for instance at: http://3things.gitbooks.io/77-failed-startup-post-mortems/wishberg/README.html http://3things.gitbooks.io/77-failed-startup-post-mortems/wi... And compare that with the linked article: http://blog.wishberg.com/post/92014031388/the-final-note-thanks-from-team-wishberg http://blog.wishberg.com/post/92014031388/the-final-note-tha... It looks as if the whole post was copied without any commentary at all. The diffle one is exactly like that, not quite a 'few sentences'.
- asanwal 12y ago
  I'm commenting about post we did here - https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem/ https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem/ We're not affiliated with the book.
  - jacquesm 12y ago
    Ah ok, sorry I see how it goes together now. That was a reference to a partial bit in the original comment.
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nostrademons 12y ago
The interesting thing, for me, is that you didn't actually link to the postmortem, you linked to the addendum to the postmortem published 6 months later. The actual postmortem was here: http://diffle-history.blogspot.com/2008/06/postmortem.html http://diffle-history.blogspot.com/2008/06/postmortem.html I wrote the aftermath because I felt that there were a few other things that should be said with the benefit of hindsight, and I'm actually thinking of writing a second aftermath, 6 years later, but want to see how events unfold first. Most of the actual lessons are in the postmortem. (I'm not miffed - I think one of the great strengths of the web is the ease of linking to and republishing content. But I do think it's worth pointing out that one of the pitfalls of aggregators is that you lose the original context of the post - in my case, there was a whole blog that tracked the startup journey, day by day, and not just a single post.)

by asanwal 12y ago

jacquesm 12y ago

I'm not sure I'm following you. When I look for instance at: http://3things.gitbooks.io/77-failed-startup-post-mortems/wishberg/README.html http://3things.gitbooks.io/77-failed-startup-post-mortems/wi... And compare that with the linked article: http://blog.wishberg.com/post/92014031388/the-final-note-thanks-from-team-wishberg http://blog.wishberg.com/post/92014031388/the-final-note-tha... It looks as if the whole post was copied without any commentary at all. The diffle one is exactly like that, not quite a 'few sentences'.

asanwal 12y ago
I'm commenting about post we did here - https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem/ https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/startup-failure-post-mortem/ We're not affiliated with the book.
- jacquesm 12y ago
  Ah ok, sorry I see how it goes together now. That was a reference to a partial bit in the original comment.

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nostrademons 12y ago

The interesting thing, for me, is that you didn't actually link to the postmortem, you linked to the addendum to the postmortem published 6 months later. The actual postmortem was here: http://diffle-history.blogspot.com/2008/06/postmortem.html http://diffle-history.blogspot.com/2008/06/postmortem.html I wrote the aftermath because I felt that there were a few other things that should be said with the benefit of hindsight, and I'm actually thinking of writing a second aftermath, 6 years later, but want to see how events unfold first. Most of the actual lessons are in the postmortem. (I'm not miffed - I think one of the great strengths of the web is the ease of linking to and republishing content. But I do think it's worth pointing out that one of the pitfalls of aggregators is that you lose the original context of the post - in my case, there was a whole blog that tracked the startup journey, day by day, and not just a single post.)