{"id":7401,"date":"2016-04-10T13:42:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T17:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=7401"},"modified":"2016-04-10T15:56:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T19:56:30","slug":"postmortems-and-founder-edits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/postmortems-and-founder-edits\/","title":{"rendered":"Postmortems and Founder Edits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
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Postmortem is a Silicon Valley thing. It’s when your startup does and then you wrote about cause of death like an autopsy.<\/div>\n
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[photo credit Raychel Gregg, NYFW]<\/div>\n
Founder edits is\u00a0#cs183e<\/a>. E stands for edit.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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The postmortem.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Fighting to turn the Light on with Bucket. \u2014 The Startup \u2014\u00a0#cs183e<\/a>\u00a0medium.com\/swlh\/fighting-\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\nThe edit\u00a0<\/span>#cs183e<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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4\/9\/16, 5:11 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
The Aftermath of a Medium Post About your Failed Startup \u2014 #cs183e<\/a> medium.com\/female-founder\u2026<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Postmortems first came into vogue when Plancast wrote about near-death in 2010. Plancast had a happy-ending*.<\/p><\/div>\n

\nMaybe 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\u00a0#cs183e<\/a>\u00a0and it’s smart.\u00a0<\/span>#cs183e<\/a>\u00a0is the new way to do things in 2019<\/span><\/div>\n
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Who am I to draw attention to common sense business!? In 2017, I did “Set the Entrepreneurship<\/b> Bell Curve”<\/span><\/div>\n
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In 2016, I did a PhD in kicking ass: “Cross the Chasm From The Right”<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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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\u00a0#cs183e. E stands for edit.\u00a0 \u00a0 The postmortem.\u00a0 Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) 4\/9\/16, 5:12 PM Fighting to turn the Light on with Bucket. \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-engineering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}