{"id":1409,"date":"2016-11-02T07:59:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T11:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccsmfa.wordpress.com\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2021-01-18T18:59:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T23:59:42","slug":"anatomy-of-a-startup-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/2016\/11\/anatomy-of-a-startup-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a Startup #Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Times has published a smart and useful article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/29\/technology\/twitters-4-year-odyssey-with-the-6-second-video-app-vine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anatomy of the failure of a startup<\/a>. Any product manager, or anyone working in a startup, can learn from the detailed sequence of steps that it took to kill <a href=\"https:\/\/vine.co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vine<\/a>\u00a0(that link will\u00a0not work once they take the site down for good).<\/p>\n<p>Vine is\/was\u00a0a well-executed app that was\u00a0early in the game with video sharing, had clever ideas that suited the market, had\u00a0good backing, had been\u00a0acquired by a powerful player\u2014and yet it died an\u00a0unfair\u00a0death, at least in startup terms. There were many moments of #fail\u00a0that occurred, not in product design but in\u00a0lots of\u00a0other ways,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/2015\/09\/whats-the-most-important-element-of-a-startup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">except bad timing<\/a>. Think of them\u00a0as a checklist\u00a0for what to watch out for. The article offers\u00a0a real example of how tenuous a startup can be, and how a cascade of errors can kill even a healthy tech company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Times has published a smart and useful article on the anatomy of the failure of a startup. Any product manager, or anyone working in a startup, can learn from the detailed sequence of steps that it took to kill Vine\u00a0(that link will\u00a0not work once they take the site down for good). Vine is\/was\u00a0a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/2016\/11\/anatomy-of-a-startup-fail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anatomy of a Startup #Fail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interaction-design","category-pangaro","tag-startups"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paKWzH-mJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3213,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/3213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}