Paul Bragiel, founder of Meetro, has just posted one of the best post-mortems I have read in a long time, explaining in great detail why Meetro, his location-aware instant messaging application, failed. Read about it here:
Anatomy Of A Failure: Lessons Learned
Very few entrepreneurs ever post anything like this. Many are embarrassed about their “failure” and others just have an ego so large they can’t admit their “baby” did not make it. I’m very happy that Paul posted this so all of us can learn.
By the way, Paul has a new startup called Lefora where you can create an online forum — not the traditional BBS-style forum, but one that’s very easy to use and modern. I have been experimenting with it and I really like it. I plan to use it for Muniwireless.
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June 20th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
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