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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. Name (required). So what does this teach us? 3 – Not the right team. and it’s not what you think.

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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. Chris calls this the “at Pricing” multiple, and you should notice that is is much lower than the $VEEV multiple of 18X. He also says they need to be “must own” names.

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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. No, I am the troll who who stood proudly on the APC until a man who was nothing more than an egotistical and maniacal bully named Clifford Hicks proved once and for all that IMVU only cared about IMVU - and not its community.

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