Yeah sure, I’d say it’s a plus to list that experience. It shows your entrepreneurial spirit which can help you stand out from other code monkeys.
It depends at what stage did it fail. But generally it shows entrepreneurial skills, an ability to take risks. What’s more important is how you learn from your experience. Also what problem you were trying to solve and why you failed.
I’m mostly concerned with pre-funding or just seed funding stages. I think almost everyone would be impressed with getting Series A funding even if it goes under.
If you are founding a startup only for the sake of making your resume looks better, it doesn’t sound right.
Generally good but have a mature narrative about why it failed, what you would do differently, etc...
Good question. As others pointed out I also believe the answer will be that it’ll look good on your resume. Especially if you will be able to brag about some milestone like X users, X funding, or X revenue or partnerships/technical achievement. I’m 4 months into working on a starting a startup full-time myself. If it fails, I imagine it’ll be the top experience I’ll brag about in interviews with big tech companies, more so than my time at Uber probably
My experience. It is bullshit. Does not count for anything. Even if you had 2 rounds of funding and had a decent user base. All the blogs and posts will tell you it’s great to have an experience of failing - but it’s not true. If you fail no one will value that. Unless - unless you worked for pedigree orgs (FANG) before your startup. If you didn’t no one will care. Not other startups and not FANG for sure. But there is a silver lining - you will build many relationships while you build your company - those relationships will be the most valuable thing and will help you massively in your next career step.
So did you start one or are you thinking of starting one ?
Still considering starting one. It’s nice that in the case it most likely fails the YoE will be equivalent, I’ll still be progressing my career. But it’s a major financial opportunity cost.
What is your skill set now, what have general things have you worked on ?
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Founding a startup? You mean being an entrepreneur who showed leadership, perseverance, dedication and commitment to follow a dream? Fail or success is secondary but what counts is the effort.