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

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spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO. created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually. spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO.

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

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On the demand side, the IPO process is limited to a handful of institutional investors and also ignores the vast majority of retail investors. Investment banks simply do not match supply and demand. The vast majority of all bond offerings are priced using the order matching system. I kid you not —100% true.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

This single decision wound up costing the company significant revenue and over the course of several months sent its customer growth into decline. 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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