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This Week in Startups · June 15, 2025 · 70m
Startup Post-Mortems: Why These Companies Failed
Calacanis examines recent startup failures and extracts lessons. Most failures stem from the same pattern: building what investors want rather than what customers need.
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Calacanis argues that startup post-mortems are more educational than success stories because they reveal the specific decisions that led to failure, providing actionable lessons.
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Failed startups universally shared impressive-sounding metrics that masked fundamental problems. Vanity metrics spread through pitch decks faster than honest assessments of product-market fit.
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