Last week brand-new video startup Encoding.com was named a finalist in Amazon’s Start-Up Challenge, one of seven in the running for $100,000 in cash and Amazon Web Services credits and a possible investment from Amazon. Resource-intensive video startups have a pretty good record in the competition […] Read more »
A very thoughtful reader offered up an inspiring quotation in his comment yesterday to our recent post on AllPeers, Good Lessons in One Graceful Failure. We think it is worth promoting. Matt wrote in to say… I know that this quote is used a lot, but […] Read more »
We posted yesterday on the failure of AllPeers. This is an evergreen topic on founders’ sites like ours, failure being an experience all of us will have at one point or another. But failure—like success!—is ‘what you make of it.’ As we learned yesterday, it needn’t […] Read more »
You may heave heard by now that the P2P startup AllPeers shut down yesterday, which cofounders Matthew Gertner and Cedric Maloux announced in this empassioned blog post. The reasons why AllPeers went bust are all too familiar — the interests/expectations of the founders apparently weren’t aligned […] Read more »
AllPeers, a personal P2P file-sharing startup based in Oxford, England, is down for the count. The company founders announced on AllPeers’ blog about the startup’s plans to shut down. The personal P2P file-sharing space is a crowded one; not many companies can claim success. AllPeers tried […] Read more »