How do you deal with failure( especially when you worked at startup)
Long story short, i worked at seed funded startup, the product that I was heading failed ( not sufficient differentiation, capabilities took too long to build and needed too much investment, founder decided to exit). In my current role, i feel like an imposter, double and triple guessing my decisions and not giving my 100%( I really gave it my all in my last startup, including a lot of my personal life, time with kids, health and all).
Especially folks who work in a startup, how do you deal with a product failure, when you have been to a large extent responsible for the direction.
Also, how is it viewed in interviews? I have plenty of decent experiences before this startup and i almost want to remove it from my resume, though it will seem like there was a gap of a year or so.
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Is it because eng failed to execute? Or because your team failed to prioritize? Or failed to hire in the most efficient way? Or maybe too many existing players that required you to have a lot of feature parity?