[filereaper]

Join a more established or successful startup in the same space.

Understand what separates the successful startup from the failed one you're in, was it the product, sales pipeline, marketing, org structure?

Essentially perform a diff between the two companies and root cause what you'd improve on and other structural things you'd change the next time around.

I'm sure you've acquired experience in the vertical that your startup was in, recoup of the time and energy investments made there.

Lastly all the best, this happens to many early employees and founders.

[vernon99]

I don’t think you can do a diff as there so many factors that you can miss without having a complete bird-eye view of the business or the org.

But nevertheless, this is a great advice in that it still would give you a good example of a functional business/org and increase your chances of success significantly.

I think better to go for an earliest stage but established startup, like series A-B, where they just validated their product-market-distribution fit and are on track to scale, but you still can get a sense of how it feels to have this early PMD fit.

On the other hand, you still will miss on the 0-1 stage and if you want to learn how to do that too, may be worth joining a very experienced serial founder at a 0 stage. They usually have enough resources to iterate till they find one.

Edit: typos.