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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. Great technology deserves great marketing; far too often, it doesn’t get it.

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

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The market just opens and the issuing companies sell their stock directly to the market. No privileged allocations handed out at a guesstimated ‘issue price’, no closed roadshows for the privileged few, no private briefings for the fat cats. the poor individual investor).

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