Comments on: 25 Internet Startups That Bombed Miserably

By: Startups

Startups — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:58:32 +0000

friendster is still ok. Great read thnx.

By: Nitin

Nitin — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 11:50:59 +0000

I heard of Flooz and Beenz. I guess they were really popular and could have used the brand name to sell something that would sell.

By: Internet Business

Internet Business — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:38:01 +0000

Unfortunately, it sank and my stock broker, and the person who was giving me advice in the area of investment, all his money in the e-toys when prices were at their peak. I derived little satisfaction from the thought that living in a smaller square me the fridge.

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:25:23 +0000

The old ones like boo and webvan are wellknown but what about some more recent epic startup fails? It’s a dilemma that we won’t hear about any big fails unless the big next bubble explodes. Until that happens, the small fails won’t seem big and relevant enough to talk about.

As Nassim Taleb puts it right in his book “The Black Swan”, people tend to look on the big and colorful successes (twitter, Facebook) but are ignorant when it comes to all the small failures that happen silently and alone.

By: Cal

Cal — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:21:09 +0000

Interesting Read, jogging my memory to many, thinking “failed miserably” is in the amount of revenue lost. Ordering kitty litter, waiting for 2-3 days stinks to high heavens.

OMG, Owners of company must not have ever owned a stinking Cat.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:32:19 +0000

Same comment with Todd. I don’t recall seeing what Kibu was about in the article. Also, IMHO, some of the companies don’t deserve to be in the “failed miserably” list. Other than that, it was a good read.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:44:28 +0000

I’d have added DEN to this, for sure…

By: Saad

Saad — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:10:19 +0000

great read

By: Vince Talerico

Vince Talerico — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:47:47 +0000

I wish there were 100 failures on this list. That was a great read.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:01:34 +0000

So, with all of these out of the way, where might someone get advice on starting yet another one? Maybe one with a useful purpose, cash flow, wide market, ect., ect.. I have an idea that I want to get off the ground, but don’t know where to go to get good advice before the “beenz” are spilled.