Failed startups should be donated to colleges for research [EVENT]

What if entrepreneurs could “donate” their failed startups to universities, in the name of research? Students could do a post-mortem and work to understand why the startup failed.

It was one question that attendees at a recent Venturef0rth event posed. Inspired by a discussion on the Philly Startup Leaders listserv after entrepreneur Steve Palmer announced he was shutting down his startup, the event focused on how to salvage failed startups.

Read a recap here.

It’s certainly an issue that entrepreneurs think about: David Friedman, who shut down his startup Inhabi, said that his only regret was that he didn’t work hard enough to find a new life for the company.