On: Post-Mortem of a Tokyo-based Web Start-up

[menloparkbum]

Emotional investment is overrated.

The reason this endeavor didn't work is:

1. foreigners living in Tokyo (I lived in tokyo for a year; hugely distracting, hardly an epicenter of web software innovation)

2. trying to build 3 apps while doing consulting work (no focus)

3. the author was a dick to his only employee (wtf? why?)

[dhouston → menloparkbum]

4. not much effort spent figuring out what market they were going after or what problem they were solving

[dpapathanasiou → dhouston]

Maybe, but they were doing something right: one site had 7,000 users after 2 months.

It seems their real problem was impatient investors.