Empiricast In their own words
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Product / execution
It got built, and the building was the hard part.
5 accounts, each written or told by the founder it happened to, filed here because that is what they said it was about.
Quesma In their own words 2025
A postmortem on our $2.5M database gateway: lessons from pilot purgatory
We had a great team, $2.5 million, and a validated problem. A year later, we sold our IP for parts. Here’s what we learned about urgency and co-foundership.
Upside AI In their own words 2023 India
Why My Startup Failed
It is much more our own execution failing.
Prosper In their own words India
Reflecting on my failure in building Prosper.
I'm writing this to reflect on why I won't be working on Prosper anymore. What went wrong? What did I learn? And lastly, what I'm working on next.
Podsheets In their own words
Launched first version of Podsheets; shut it down
The idea was good, but we had too much going on at the time. A podcast hosting business turned out to be more support-intensive than we expected, and we shut it down after realising it was going to be too demanding.
eChai Partner Brands
The partnership →
