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Why Startups Fail: Six Issues to Avoid

Leading Blog

More than two-thirds of them never deliver a positive return to investors. False Positives. Early adopters and mainstream customers have different needs, and both need to be tested. Crowdfunding campaigns may demonstrate a product’s appeal to product category enthusiasts, but they don’t provide data on mass-market demand.

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The $300 House: The Marketing Challenge

Harvard Business Review

The broad, mass market approach of a Western marketer is foolish because there is no mass market in places where villages are the market. He could fit all his worldly positions into a rollaboard, and yet he owns a solar lantern, the first man in his village to buy one. Mass market acceptance is rare.