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Most startup-failure content is either a listicle repeating the same 10 examples (Theranos, FTX, Quibi), or bundled into expensive tools like Crunchbase that treat failure as a footnote. Ledger & Lore is different: 192 companies, each pairing real funding data with a sourced explanation of what went wrong and a plain lesson, not just a "closed" tag. Undisclosed figures are marked, never guessed. Compare any two companies side by side, or filter by industry, country, or cause.
Fraud makes headlines. Running out of money makes statistics. This archive has both, and the statistics are winning by a landslide.
I'm a business student at Northeastern. Most startup failure content is either a listicle repeating the same 10 examples, or buried inside expensive tools like Crunchbase that treat failure as a footnote.
Ledger & Lore is a free alternative: 192 companies, each with funding raised, a sourced explanation of what went wrong, a timeline, and links to the original reporting. Nothing scraped, nothing estimated, undisclosed figures are marked as such.
The most interesting finding across all 192: running out of funding caused more failures (55.9%) than fraud, competition, and everything else combined.
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About Ledger & Lore on Product Hunt
“A free, sourced archive of 192 startup failures”
Ledger & Lore was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #72 on the daily leaderboard. Most startup-failure content is either a listicle repeating the same 10 examples (Theranos, FTX, Quibi), or bundled into expensive tools like Crunchbase that treat failure as a footnote. Ledger & Lore is different: 192 companies, each pairing real funding data with a sourced explanation of what went wrong and a plain lesson, not just a "closed" tag. Undisclosed figures are marked, never guessed. Compare any two companies side by side, or filter by industry, country, or cause.
Ledger & Lore was featured in Education (79k followers), Startup Lessons (7.8k followers) and Data & Analytics (5.8k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 37.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Ledger & Lore?
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