[galistoca]

As long as you have solid skills, success or failure doesn't really matter at all (although if you were successful you wouldn't be applying for a job, which leaves us with failure in this case).

From my experience companies only look at your objective skills when they hire you. And a lot of large companies actually respect that you have worked on your own company even if it failed.

So don't worry about what it means, if you're trying to find a job, study for the interview really. That's one thing I messed up when I shut down my company and had to get a job for the first time in my life. I didn't even know "preparing for an interview" was a thing and failed miserably at some of the early interviews I did, but later figured out there's a formula and then I aced everything, ended up getting multiple job offers and chose the one I wanted.

[tostitos1979]

Mind sharing details on what you mean by "preparing"? Like .. a weekend worth or a lot more? I go into interviews with a half day of prep and admittedly it isn't always pretty. How does someone with a high responsibility/workload current job get the focused prep time? A friend of mine said "3 months to prep for a Google interview" ... I couldn't believe him.