Ask HN: losing faith in the startup where I'm employee #1
I'm very new to the startup world. A year ago, I left academia to join a startup as the first engineer employee. The skies were bright, we were going to change the world and become rich and all be happy together. Now a year later, things are way more gloom. We haven't raised any money, as of today we have effectively 0 active users, and our total revenue over the past year has been ~$100. Out of 3 founders, none is technical (the CTO is a very, very well connected industry veteran though), and they are all very unfocused and out of touch with certain realities (for example, they filed a patent for a silly tech idea right after incorporation and keep trying to implement that technology in products although it doesn't really solve anything). During meetings, I always feel like a killjoy by attempting to be realistic and focused and reserved about the brand new idea they come up with every
Why it failed
I'm very new to the startup world. A year ago, I left academia to join a startup as the first engineer employee. The skies were bright, we were going to change the world and become rich and all be happy together. Now a year later, things are way more gloom. We haven't raised any
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- tantrumpython
- Ended
- 2012
- Source
- hackernews