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Documented failures, including the ones that made money first — what actually killed them, stated before you spend yours.
Test a software moat claim against three founder accounts. Separate revenue from durable advantage with an evidence table and a copying stress test.
Plan a responsible product sunset with a historical Glitch timeline, a customer-exit checklist, and clear boundaries on what founder stories actually prove.
Assess the ongoing promise behind SaaS lifetime deals using three historical launch accounts, a worked cost scenario, and an operating checklist.
Map platform dependency across product execution, acquisition, customer relationships, and payments, with historical startup evidence and a fallback checklist.
ProvenStartups files 38 cases as cautionary tales, and the useful ones are not the businesses that never worked — they worked first. Six document a peak…
Download 22 public cautionary startup cases with evidence class, reported outcome, case URL, source URL, and explicit limitations.
We keep 38 documented failures — businesses that launched, were written up, and did not work — out of 406 entries in our index. National failure…