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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? Dwelling or being married to a bad idea is not a good way to allocate resources.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, I am convinced that if you could find some of IMVU’s earliest adopters, they would say something like this: “sure, those guys at IMVU HQ were helpful in writing code and stuff, but in the end they were just the hired help. It was really the community who built that product.&# My last real concern is with the new 2.0

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