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An eChai library

FailCode

Founders on what did not work out, in their own words.

Every account here was written or told by the person it happened to, and links back to where they said it. Nothing on this page says why a company failed. That is not ours to say, and the founders say it better.

  • 206 founder accounts 148 of them published by the founder themselves
  • 13 subjects from running out of cash to a channel that closed
  • 148 companies named each with what it was, in its own words
  • 49 resources research and talks on why companies fail

Jump to the subjects, every account, or how the library is put together.

Start where you are

Readers arrive with a situation rather than a company name, so the way in is by subject. Each one is filed from what the founder said it was about.

20 accounts to start with

These carry the whole dateline: whose company it was, what it did, and what the founder said it was about. The rest of the library is behind the link under them.

Every account and resource, all 252 of them →

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