[mikasjoman]

As someone who employs developers, I don't really even care why it went South - well at least if you didn't wreck havvoc at the place. Startups are big bets, and they mostly go south because most ideas don't work out. I would be interested to hear what you learnt though - if you can reflect well on things going south. What I really do care about is your skills and your ways of working with colleagues. I care about technical know-how, clean code/defensive/architecture, testing your code, awareness of non-functional requirements and how you work to ensure your code doesn't suck or is even dangerous to my clients/citizens, the ability to be a mench that contribute to the team delivering. Those are my standard, and they have nothing to do with your startup going south. So don't worry. I don't think any other managers would care too much either.