{"id":3426,"date":"2018-04-20T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/?p=3426"},"modified":"2018-04-20T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T03:10:00","slug":"why-do-start-ups-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2018\/04\/20\/why-do-start-ups-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do start-ups fail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an article that talked about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/311064\">top 4 reasons why start-ups fail.<\/a> The four are: inadequate testing, incompatibility of team members, lack of persistence, and a catch-all category\u2014everything else (which includes greed and lack of proper tools).<\/p>\n<p>The article reminded me of our discussion on Saravathy\u2014where we talked about how the effectual model is more closely associated with start-ups and that failures are baked into start-ups\u2014and our discussions on the limitations on innovation. Even with the information from this article, it seems like start-ups will continue to struggle (especially since these 4 reasons are hard to &#8220;bake in&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an article that talked about the top 4 reasons why start-ups fail. The four are: inadequate testing, incompatibility of team members, lack of persistence, and a catch-all category\u2014everything else (which includes greed and lack of proper tools). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2018\/04\/20\/why-do-start-ups-fail\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2880,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3427,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions\/3427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}