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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. So what does this teach us? 3 – Not the right team.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

Loyalty is not something that people distribute to all and any that they come into contact with regardless of warrant. You, as a company, also need to be profitable to remain as a business. Eric you, Matt and Nat and others were once very active on the IMVU forums interacting with and genuinely listening to users. You earned their loyalty.

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