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

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Marc Hedlund of Wesabe talked about this in his post-mortem stating: Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. 11 – Pricing Issues. So what does this teach us?

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

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Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. Chris calls this the “at Pricing” multiple, and you should notice that is is much lower than the $VEEV multiple of 18X. If the founder (or any member of Party A) participates in the IPO, they do NOT even receive the issue price.

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