Skip to content
FAILRADAR

Kirkland North

Kirkland North is taking an infectious campus-wide game that it ran at Yale and Harvard last year and spreading it to other campuses around the country.\n\nThe game, called Turf, pits sections of campuses against each other in a virtual battle for university-wide domination. The founders are currently rolling out individual versions of their online game as a service for institutions including Stanford and Harvard.

DeadWinter 2008Other

About Kirkland North

Kirkland North is taking an infectious campus-wide game that it ran at Yale and Harvard last year and spreading it to other campuses around the country. The game, called Turf, pits sections of campuses against each other in a virtual battle for university-wide domination. The founders are currently rolling out individual versions of their online game as a service for institutions including Stanford and Harvard.

Risk Analysis

Category Risk

22%death rate

Other: 130 of 604 startups failed

MEDIUM

Team Size

2people

Median for failed in Other: 2

Median for active in Other: 4

Founded 2008 — older batches naturally have higher attrition rates. Death rate comparisons should account for age.

External Resources

Post-mortem content hosted on startups.rip — we provide the analytics layer.