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Why Startups Fail: Six Issues to Avoid

Leading Blog

Marketing: How much to spend on marketing. Premature scaling of marketing and product development efforts is a widespread cause of startup failure. Early adopters and mainstream customers have different needs, and both need to be tested. Profit Formula: This is your plan for making money. False Positives.

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The $300 House: The Marketing Challenge

Harvard Business Review

So Acumen finds entrepreneurs on site in the developing world, funds them, teaches them and pushes them to build really big organizations. As a result, stores in the developing world tend to be stocked with the classic, the tried and true, because people buy refills of previous purchases, not the new. Mass market acceptance is rare.