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Read this and you will learn a lot more:

"Failed Startups- +70 articles listing +400 failed startups, filtered by country, industry, customer, and cause of failure" - https://www.failory.com/failures



Thanks. That site is advertising-heavy, but does have some info. One thing that could be done better is that the interviews I skimmed are softball to one person. So this is more the "incredible journey" answer for why it failed, but the actual dozen unflattering reasons.


Agree a little bit. Here is another one: "483 startup failure post-mortems" - https://www.cbinsights.com/research/startup-failure-post-mor...


The exceedingly tidy high-level explanations might be OK for some purposes, but not so for actually avoiding the contributing factors happening again to countless startups in the future.

I wonder whether anyone at any investment firm bothers to understand why a startup actually failed, or that's irrelevant to their operating model.




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