This is one of the more interesting blogs I have read in a long time. This is from a cofounder of a company called Monitor110 that eventually went under:
http://www.informationarbitrage.com/2008/07/monitor110-a-po.html
According to the post, the seven deadline sins are:
- The lack of a single, “the buck stops here” leader until too late in the game
- No separation between the technology organization and the product organization
- Too much PR, too early
- Too much money
- Not close enough to the customer
- Slow to adapt to market reality
- Disagreement on strategy both within the Company and with the Board
(saw this on Jeremy Liew‘s blog)