There are some interesting stories in here (check out the condom key-chain one), but it would be nice if they were broken down by industry, or at least didn't have quite so many service-offered-over-web/new-blogging-service stories. Maybe its just that there are so many of those these days? It makes me wonder if anyone reading this has some information breaking down startup failure rates by industry or sector... perhaps with average capitalization and length of operation before failure. It would make sense to me that the typical cat-video-sharing startup might have a much higher failure rate, but lower capital cost and years invested, than say, genomics startups or solar power startups. It might be good to see how gift stores, enterprise software or financial services fit in between those extremes.

Thanks for posting them here. This is great HN content.