How are we coping with the failure of our startup?

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Startup failures: a pie chart investigation

23rd September 2014
By Ann Friedman
Played by too many rules 35%; content did not activate users 20%; founders pivoted too late 20%; moved too slow/broke too few things 18%; ran out of funding 7%
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Writing a killer TED talk about it 20%; adding it to our CV 20%; combination of meditative exercises and heavy drinking 30%; scanning the headlines for a new industry to disrupt 30%

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