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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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Like Edison and the lightbulb, like Gates and the pc operating system, I would launch a revolution that would transform society while bringing me wealth and fame. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders. We had the wrong business model.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

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Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. That means the vast majority of privately held companies are still very dependent on venture money to stay in business. Especially since even Youtube is still struggling to try find a viable business model.