SkyRocket
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
SkyRocket was the startup of founder Michael Thomas. Its exact product and business details are not publicly documented beyond the founder's own account; it is known primarily through his widely cited postmortem essay 'A Startup Postmortem', which appears in multiple startup-failure collections.
02 / SkyRocket FAILURE REASONS
Failure reasons
In his postmortem, Thomas writes that 'money stopped coming in the door': sales lagged and new product challenges arose. He describes how his own enthusiasm and confidence dwindled with each pitch, and how he grew fearful that the facade of confidence he had built would collapse if those around him noticed—a case where the founder's loss of belief compounded the business's decline.
03 / EVENT HISTORY
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04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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