Startup Advice for Hacker News Founders

There should be more advice on startups from people who failed - they bring key insights to the table.

So when's your next startup going to launch? Second time could be the charm!

JohnN, at what moment did you realize that you were not going to continue with your startup? What was the tipping point?

Hey maybe the idea could still have worked but in a radically different form e.g. some kind of about.com/ adsense content syndication hoover. Maybe it was the focus on high quality content/ journalism that was the wrong direction - I'd encourage you to think about other ways it might work if you started from first principles.

isnt this something like instablogs ..<a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/instablogs-negotiating-3-million-round/" rel="nofollow">http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/instablogs-negotiating-...</a><p>everyone blogs about successes, but blogs about failures are hard to come by, and that too straight from the horses mouth.<p>.. best of luck for your next venture

Dead horse? No such thing.<p>Only insufficiently flogged ones.