By Larry Chiang
Postmortem is a Silicon Valley thing. It’s when your startup does and then you wrote about cause of death like an autopsy.

[photo credit Raychel Gregg, NYFW]
Founder edits is #cs183e. E stands for edit.
The postmortem.
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Fighting to turn the Light on with Bucket. — The Startup — #cs183e medium.com/swlh/fighting-…
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The edit #cs183e
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The Aftermath of a Medium Post About your Failed Startup — #cs183e medium.com/female-founder…
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Postmortems first came into vogue when Plancast wrote about near-death in 2010. Plancast had a happy-ending*.
Maybe practice on a cadaver before you start your own startup. No matter how smart you are inside Stanford medicine, you do not practice in my grandma. You practice on a cadaver. Practicing on a dead startup is #cs183e and it’s smart. #cs183e is the new way to do things in 2019
Who am I to draw attention to common sense business!? In 2017, I did “Set the Entrepreneurship Bell Curve”