Failed startups

[Jaggu]

I am looking for list of failed startup. Does anyone know how to find companies which are failed or which are about to give up?

[dpapathanasiou]

The TechCrunch Deadpool (http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool) is one place to start.

[redrory → dpapathanasiou]

/agreed

[kingnothing → redrory]

If you agree with something, just vote it up instead of replying with something that isn't useful to the discussion at hand.

[nostrademons]

FuckedCompany.com (http://www.fuckedcompany.com/index.html), though it isn't posting new companies anymore. The author wrote a book called "F'd Companies" that chronicled some of the worst dot-bomb era flameouts.

[ALee]

CNET's list is classic (if that's what you're looking for). It includes such classic one-hit wonders as: Boo.com, Webvan, and Pets.com. It's a good list to learn that spending lots of money quickly on marketing will not make a great idea better.

I would also suggest reading: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070601/features-how-to-kill-a-.... It's cool to see how Friendster didn't win in the war for US social networking (even though southeastern Asia loves it).

[jgrahamc]

Well I can add my little web site UseTheSource to the list of dead ideas. It's "Digg" but just for code.

www.usethesource.com.

John.

[jdavid]

what is the list for?