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

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Location was an issue in two different ways. By way of crude example, if your building innovative trading software for Wall Street, be where you customers are and where you can best network. Location issues were given as a reason for failure 6% of the time. 11 – Pricing Issues. During this year they.

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After Facebook's IPO flub, value of tech startups falls back to earth

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Thirteen promising young companies had just taken the stage, and Silicon Alley’s tech community was abuzz with the news of Single Platform being acquired by Constant Contact for $100 million, hot on the heels of Buddy Media being purchased for $800 million. "A Apps & Software. the poor individual investor). June 19, 2012.

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The cardinal sin of community management

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. This probably sounds illogical. After all, people rarely say they are mad because they are not being heard.

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