For the past two weeks, I have reached out to various companies and startups through email, contact forms, Facebook, and Twitter. Getting someone to respond to me has been so much harder than I thought it would be. Unfortunately, none of the below companies have gotten back to me. I even reached out to a Founder on Twitter, who ignored my mention, even though he has been active on the platform. To his defense, he has no obligation to reply to me. From this experience, however, I have noticed that many startups with similar ideas to mine have failed. The Founders of these various ideas attempted to launch their restaurant wait time software, but now, their websites and emails are no longer valid. This makes me wonder what made them scrap the idea. Was it too hard to get off the ground? Was there not enough interest? I had hoped to interview these past companies to see what went wrong but received no response.
People/Companies I reached out to
- OpenTable
- Seamless
- GrubHub
- Ritual
- Caviar
- UpFront
- QLess
- StoreWaits
- Bryan Edelman
- FoodJunky
- DoorDash
- Density
Hi Karin, I understand how frustrating it has been to reach out to many competitors and not receive a response. The same happened to me. Not getting a response and coming across multiple failed startups has also made me wonder why they failed and if my idea is any good. Although neither of us have not receive any responses, I believe we just have to keep trying until we exhaust all of our options.