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Learnings from a (failed) social media startup - part 2.0
So, I tried to start up. It failed. I wrote about it all in my last post here. (If you read only of these posts, read that one). I’ve often been asked the questions “Why? Why do you think it failed?” and “What did you learn?” I don’t think our failure or learnings were extraordinary or even very different from the thousands of startups that fail every year. But, I recently learnt that that doesn’t make them less important. So, here goes:1. Distribution/ Go-to market is EVERYTHINGThe Product w...
Learnings from a (failed) social media startup - part 2.0
So, I tried to start up. It failed. I wrote about it all in my last post here. (If you read only of these posts, read that one). I’ve often been asked the questions “Why? Why do you think it failed?” and “What did you learn?” I don’t think our failure or learnings were extraordinary or even very different from the thousands of startups that fail every year. But, I recently learnt that that doesn’t make them less important. So, here goes:1. Distribution/ Go-to market is EVERYTHINGThe Product w...
Musings from a (failed) social media startup - part 1.0
In 2020, I co-founded Comet. I was a first-time founder - pretty sure I was building the next big social media company because I was ‘solving my own problem’ and ‘doing things that don’t scale’. I was convinced that I was ‘building a 10x better product than existing solutions’, and that I just needed to somehow solve the early chicken-and-egg problem of social networks and marketplaces. Before Comet became an attempt at a startup, it was a simple quarantine project - a ‘Curated reads’ newslet...
Musings from a (failed) social media startup - part 1.0
In 2020, I co-founded Comet. I was a first-time founder - pretty sure I was building the next big social media company because I was ‘solving my own problem’ and ‘doing things that don’t scale’. I was convinced that I was ‘building a 10x better product than existing solutions’, and that I just needed to somehow solve the early chicken-and-egg problem of social networks and marketplaces. Before Comet became an attempt at a startup, it was a simple quarantine project - a ‘Curated reads’ newslet...
Hello, World!
Trying to reduce the barrier to writing, by reducing the barrier to publishing. I’m not an expert on any topic, and I will not pretend to be a ‘thought leader’.. but I do have a stream of consciousness on some topics. On many others, my thoughts and views will be better served by ‘talking them out’ i.e., writing them out here. Rather than trying to write the perfect post on the perfect topic, I’m going to write a post on a topic, and go from there. Also, I have wide-ranging interests, thought...
Hello, World!
Trying to reduce the barrier to writing, by reducing the barrier to publishing. I’m not an expert on any topic, and I will not pretend to be a ‘thought leader’.. but I do have a stream of consciousness on some topics. On many others, my thoughts and views will be better served by ‘talking them out’ i.e., writing them out here. Rather than trying to write the perfect post on the perfect topic, I’m going to write a post on a topic, and go from there. Also, I have wide-ranging interests, thought...
