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In fact, I didn’t even know what a startup was! I just knew I wanted to solve a problem I personally experienced: having a closet full of clothes but still nothing to wear. Looking back, when I started 99dresses fresh out of high school I was very naive and had zero idea what I was doing. If there is one thing that doing a startup has taught me, it’s that I am much more resilient than I could have ever imagined. Over 90% of tech startups fail, but I never thought my baby, 99dresses, would be one of them. My startup failed, and this is what it feels like… This books ‘curator’ (on twitter): Failure: 99 Dresses There is much within these pages that can be learned and applied to our own startup projects. I hope you enjoy the convenience of reading all of these amazing articles in one easily digested ebook, as I have. There may be typo’s and poor grammar, but don’t shoot the messenger - I’ve just collected content that was already out there, I have NOT edited or Putting all of these essays and posts into one ebook has taken me a lot of hours already. Note that images contained in the original articles online have been left out mostly, in the interests of saving time and file size. Some have already started to disappear as domains expire, so I’ve gone to the trouble of getting those articles too, via the wayback machine. Also in my mind was the need to preserve some of these startup stories that we can all likely learn a lot from. I’ve organized essays purely by the startup that failed, for ease of use. Just packaging them together so others may enjoy them freely, as I have done. I’m not profiting, looking to profit from these collected works. I have merely packaged this information for my own (and your) reading convenience, so we might read through these amazing stories at our leisure on our Kindles, phone or ipads or whatever. This book is not intended to be republished for any kind of financial gain or sold for profit, all articles remain the property of their respective writers/owners/sites. 77 assorted essays and post-mortems from the founders or investors of failed startups, collected from around the web.ĭiscover the reasons behind startup failure, from the founders themselves.Īll stories are attributed with their original source.