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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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11 – Pricing Issues. Pricing is one part science, 10 parts art. And a dark art according to a large number of startups which failed and who attributed product pricing that was too high or too low to make money. We so often see good ideas, without a good understanding of customer demand (reason number 2).

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

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They return the favor by doing more banking business with said banks, and some of the windfall-money comes right back to the bank via other channels. On the demand side, the IPO process is limited to a handful of institutional investors and also ignores the vast majority of retail investors. I kid you not —100% true.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

They are largely invisible in the normal channels where customer service and community management pays attention. until I couldn't seem to find a way from getting away from all these nasty, vulgar teens (or people pretending to be teens) demanding explicit sex every time I went there. So I gave up.

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