Why start-ups fail: No market need.

CB Insights  a market intelligence platform analyzed why 110 Tech Companies failed.  The second most common cause of failure was that there was no demand for the product or service.   How can you avoid spending hours and money developing your business only to find that no one, or at least not enough people, wants your …

Why start-ups fail. Don’t let a flawed business plan ruin your success story.

CB Insights lists having a flawed business model as the fourth most common cause of failures for Tech start-ups. Nineteen percent of CEOs of failed companies attribute a flawed business model as a cause of their lack of success. What does a flawed business model look like? Simply put, a flawed business plan does not …

Case Study: A Date with Destiny Part 4

Why Start-ups Fail: False Starts. We learned in the previous post that the founder of Triangulate, Sunil Nagaraj identified that the root causes of the company’s downfall were his choice of initial market, online dating, and not talking to the right people. In his book Why Start-Ups Fail? Professor Tom Eisenmann provides more granularity to …