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

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declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). 11 – Pricing Issues. During this year they.