Not sure if the personal interview model can be scaled as to include an appealing variety of startups. You may want to take a look at these two sites[0:2] that I think do a pretty good job at aggregating the stories of the startups that did not quiet take off.<p>[0] Collapsed - <a href="https://collapsed.co/" rel="nofollow">https://collapsed.co/</a>
[1] Autopsy - <a href="http://autopsy.io/" rel="nofollow">http://autopsy.io/</a>