12 Indian Startups That Shut Down in 2024 – What Went Wrong? 💔
While the startup ecosystem witnessed unicorn success, 2024 also saw the unfortunate shutdown of 12 startups, despite millions in funding. Let’s take a closer look:
Startups That Calle
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Anonymous 1
Stealth • 11d
Koo’s failure was inevitable. Competing with Twitter in India was a bad move from the start. Even with $50M, they were trying to fight a battle they couldn’t win.
In November 2023, Disney pulled their ads from X, costing Elon Musk $75M in revenue.
But instead of backing down, Elon fired back, telling Disney's CEO to "go f*** himself."
Here's what happened next.
In November 2023, Disney’s CEO Bob Iger stoppe
They want to see you lose
Both when you are at the top and when you are just starting to make moves
Most people are just haters
They wouldn’t ever fight for what they want but they will hate on those who do
Be smart.
Use their hate to win
Use t
DeepSeek is a side project.
And so was:
Product Hunt
Twitter
Craigslist
AppSumo
Oculus
Gumroad
GitHub
Medial
Instagram
Twitch
Slack
…and many others.
Keep building projects,
You never know when you will strike gold.
Side projects
you all know, I was get up in morning in today and I was thinking why there is not so easy to launch the startup and get funding then I found there is something wrong with medial because I was not satisfied even medial is just in baby phase but I was
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Vishu Bheda
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Medial • 9d
Jack Dorsey explains how recognizing fortunate situations led to the founding of Twitter and Square
One of the most important skills for any entrepreneur is recognizing opportunities and acting on them.
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Square
“2 million daily active users to Failure”
Billions to Bankruptcy #11
Koo was founded in 2020 by Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka as a microblogging platform for Indians in multiple languages.Initially experienced a rapid rise due to its p
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Vishu Bheda
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Medial • 28d
In 2012, Vine became a viral sensation — launching countless creators and hitting 200 million users.
But by 2017, it was gone.
How did the app that defined short-form video lose — and why didn't it hit the same success as TikTok?
The rise and fal
Elon Musk held a presidential election on X (formerly Twitter), and 🏆 Trump won by a huge margin.
The audience on X clearly favors Trump, but such a significant lead is telling. Democrats will have to do a lot of work 🛠️ to engineer a win for Kama
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EdupreneurHub of Nav
Stealth • 2m
Day 5 of posting business content from which you can learn something new.
2005 was a different world:
• iphone doesn't exist
• Apps were not a thing
But Google saw something nobody else did.
They found a tiny startup called Android Inc
The company
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Kolkata Index
Stealth • 1m
Failed Startups of Today’s Billionaires: Lessons in Resilience
Ever heard of Zip2 or Odeo? Probably not. Yet, these "failed" ventures laid the groundwork for Elon Musk's Tesla and Twitter or Jack Dorsey's Twitter resurgence. Did you know Jeff Bezos’