Hey HN!
@NiralSJP here—one half of the team that put this together.
Glad you're finding it useful and we appreciate the comments and suggestions
@NiralSJP here—one half of the team that put this together.
Glad you're finding it useful and we appreciate the comments and suggestions
Something I've noticed when discussing failure is there's a class of people who are real assholes about other people's failures (focusing on blame, using very negative phrases, trying to second guess founders for who knows what reason, etc). I notice some comments in this thread are along those lines.
I'd love it if you kept that in mind as you build this, esp since some of the comments/suggestions in this thread are quite, em, unpleasant.
That's not to say a founder has too much more insight into the specifics of what you faced. Without being in the thick of it, it's almost impossible to really see what happened.
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth - Mike Tyson
But, as a community, we should try to builds things that don't encourage this sort of shit. If you want to promote learning from failure, it's in your best interest to make sure that you don't accidentally dissuade people from writing about it.
But, we're definitely conscious of negativity, as the goal was always to be constructive and learn from entrepreneurs like yourself.