Friday, 3 March 2017

Take-aways from Startup failure

Another good panel discussion, this time on failure.

There was a lot of talk about German attitude to failure and almost whimsical debate on whether failure is a good thing.

Anyway here are my takeaways:


  • according to research entrepreneurs on average succeed on their fifth venture (!!!)
  • startups tend to fail for these three reasons:
    • poor marketing
    • poor team
    • running out of cash
  • get and check references for investors (one of the panellists had a galling story of how she was conned into leaving a company and joining a new VC funded by someone who turned out to be a fraud)
  • get a good lawyer on your side, early on.

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