How To Start a Startup - Lecture 1: Why To Start A Startup (Sam Altman and Dustin Moskovitz)
Observed dead: the site no longer answers as a live product. Pulse momentum is negative over 30 days (-16.0) — observed activity is receding. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.
HTTP liveness
realSignal telemetry
4 families · 1 observed · observed onlyhowtostartastartup.coedge
direct originserver
ApacheTranco rank
unranked
Analyst read
generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrativeHow To Start a Startup - Lecture 1: Why To Start A Startup (Sam Altman and Dustin Moskovitz)'s site returned a hard-dead response when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so we mark it inactive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 5 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.
Comparable set
curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity| Company | Basis | Overlap | Pulse | 30d Δ | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FounderKit (Free Video Series)education | similar | 83% | 8.0 | 0.0 | — unverified |
| Remote Job Courseeducation | similar | 67% | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
| Goalsy Resourcesproductivity | tag-overlap | 67% | 40.0 | +32.0 | ● live |
| Product Idea Checklist for Founderseducation | similar | 60% | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
| Dudes of Disruption - Special Edition 1: Interview with Jen Groover: Emotional Intelligenceeducation | similar | 60% | 40.0 | +9.6 | ● live |
| ChickTech.orgeducation | similar | 60% | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
| MissionBiteducation | similar | 60% | 16.0 | +8.0 | → redirected |
| 30 Days of PMeducation | similar | 57% | 8.0 | 0.0 | — unverified |
Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.
Structure
observed attributesFunding & team
not in sourceNo disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.