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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? Best, The Chubby Team. Andrew says: January 21, 2011 at. Thanks for the insight.

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

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They’re going to do big things in search, ecommerce, software platforms, entertainment, and more over the next decade if they execute the right way and will blow the stock price out of the water if even one of those things works out. The market just opens and the issuing companies sell their stock directly to the market.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

I find it appalling and almost frightening that secondlife seams to be preparing to fully open a grid financially supported by mostly over 30's who have money and spend it, to teens who have NO money and such plans are creating restrictive traffic flows in an already problematic search function.

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