February 15, 2020
HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through
HQ Trivia is dead. Today the company laid off its full staff of 25 and will...
December 26, 2019
Remembering the startups we lost in 2019
All manner of startups fail for all manner of reasons. But there’s one...
October 28, 2017
$1,000 tea infuser startup Teforia shuts down
In what the company is calling “a very difficult time for hardware...
April 29, 2017
Yik Yak shuts down after Square paid $1 million for its engineers
Yik Yak co-founders Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington published a farewell...
September 27, 2016
Fishing in the dead pool
I have used my free time this summer revisiting a childhood passion:...
August 15, 2016
Blab shuts down, founders promise new app on the way
Livestreaming app Blab, which amassed 3.9 million users in just one year, shut...