A Tale Of Four Startups
summary
Four startup case studies across 20 years: an interactive-TV VC spinout that spends money on set‑top demos, files patents, builds an EPG and then folds after seven months from hire to collapse around 9/11; a self‑funded TV software shop that negotiates escrow and wins ~£250k for an SMS/moderation service that actually runs for years; an MP3 download startup holding 100 TB of uncompressed music in a makeshift datacenter while adopting TDD + CI + Jira; and a VC‑backed collaboration platform that raises £90M in VC before selling to private equity.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 5:17Flextech
- 9:26What Is a Startup
- 20:26British Telecom
- 26:15Personal Legacy
- 33:52Business Realities
- 45:17The Advantages of Renaming a Company
- 54:19Benefits
- 58:28Takeaways
