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by nostrademons 6498 days ago
It's probably the aftermath of the 05-07 startup boom and the weak economy. Startups are failing now, but since many of them didn't take VC, all we get are lots of postmortems. Also, solo entrepreneurs have fewer toes to step on and don't need to worry so much about airing their company's dirty laundry.

There was a similar boom in printed books after 2001 - anyone ever go to their library's business history section and read all the stories about dot-bomb flameouts? Now that just shows up on the web.