So that's it. That's my story of what failure feels like. I hope reading it was as helpful to you as writing it was cathartic to me. Most startups fail, and yet this industry doesn't talk about failure nearly enough.
Will the home-cleaning revolution be Uberfied? How one company tried, and spectacularly failed. It was Thanksgiving 2013 and the San Francisco offices of Homejoy were uncommonly quiet. The online home-cleaning startup was in the midst of an explosive expansion and only shut its doors two days each year: Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.
No survivorship bias here. A compilation of startup failure post-mortems by founders and investors. On his many failed experiments, Thomas Edison once said, I have learned fifty thousand ways it cannot be done and therefore I am fifty thousand times nearer the final successful experiment.
