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Flameouts of 7 promising startups

7 Promising Startups That Went Bust

This 8-minute video gives the rise-and-fall stories of powerful or promising online startups that went bust: Friendster (social network), AltaVista (search engine), Napster (file sharing), The Torquing Group (drone maker), boo.com (fashion shopping), Secret (social network app), and KaloBios (douchebro’s pharmaceutical firm).

Here’s what the front pages for these startups look like now:

Friendster (above)



AltaVista



Napster

The Torquing Group website (flyzano.com) doesn’t load for me.



Boo.com



Secret



KaloBios

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