Why Startups Fail?

[@PhillipHilton]

Bill Gross' Y-Combinator lecture should be 'mandatory' for anyone launching a startup. I would add in Simon Wardley's lecture from OSCON 2014: "Anticipating the Future: An Introduction to Value Chain Mapping" as a tool for planning and accessing what you are doing.

[@Dangerous_123-f1j]

This video really helped me

[@dinogane]

Weaving your personal experiences in really added another layer to your (as per usual) excellent insights.

[@AshMaurya]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@dinogane]

@@AshMaurya I started to wonder if it was more about "first to insight" than timing. Zuckerberg understood first that it was about bringing your offline network online. Facebook did not introduce new technology. It forced identity using your college email address. It could have been a decade earlier.

[@scotttaylor2860]

Funny, I was going to send you that bill gross talk when I ran into it a few weeks ago.

[@PhillipHilton]

His Y-combinator talk is fantastic. Timing, timing, timing.

[@shadmansudipto7287]

Lol I also remembered that just after watching the first five seconds. Even though I was a teenager when I watched that.

[@scotttaylor2860]

Probably only applies to VC backed unicorns, though?

[@PhillipHilton]

@@scotttaylor2860 The timing thing? No it's huge for any business. Bootstrapped or otherwise. Watch Bill's full Y-combinator talk it's fascinating.

[@GioMorocica]

Well explained 👌👍

[@PaulOrlando]

Hi Ash. I like the way you frame this, including the addition of Naval's list. I've been fascinated by timing for some time. I think you'd like a book on the timing topic, called Why Now: How Good Timing Makes Great Products. It takes a different approach, but I think we arrive at similar conclusions.

[@AshMaurya]

@@PaulOrlando Have it on my list and yes, I caught one of your talks on what I call triggering events /inflections and yes we’re aligned :)

[@pablopoo]

Just start at the right time®️. You can apply idea management (innovation) to review your ideas every 90 days, so you can decide when is the right time to start.

[@ozvideolar]

I subscribed to you. Watching all of uour videos, even theybhave low view count, your videos and ideas very insightful. Hope to discuss some of our business with you

[@tejasshetty1789]

Hey sir please make video on lean sprint as its not much written on the book running lean

[@tejasshetty1789]

What i mean is after doing monthly kick off meeting what things to do to plan campaign and then check with experiment and continue it

[@shreyassrinivasa5983]

Timing!!

[@vvmm3712]

Wasn't six degrees created by Andrew Weinreich?

[@AshMaurya]

sixdegrees.com, yes... but they were already out of business in 2002 when I launched. I initially called it 6Degrees but then renamed it to WiredReach.

[@RenatLotfullin]

5:57 video link missing

[@AshMaurya]

Hi there - The card is there but being new to KZbin I'm pointing in the opposite direction :) Here's the direct link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2SmgZV5pc2co5Y

[@StonedApe420]

How do you plan and execute for timing, you dont. Timing as most significant factor inicates that in most cases it is just Survivorship Bias aka Luck and incomplete data.

[@AshMaurya]

looks like you didn't watch the full video :)

[@StonedApe420]

​@@AshMaurya Yeap, you got me there :)

[@opelfrost]

uh google rose up cause their search worked - the past tense is deliberate

[@roysyailendra]

he was right though, he wasn't talking about the very first google product that they launched