Why Do Startups Fail

Why Do Startups Fail REASONS WHY STARTUPS FAILThe reasons for the high failure rate in the startup world can be attributed to one of three things: the team, the product/market fit, and the resources available. We’ll look at these one by one, and explore the various problems within each issue.PROBLEMS WITH THE TEAMIf you interview 10 fast growing startups, 9 out of 10 will say their biggest challenge is attracting top talent. It starts with the founders, is driven by vision and culture and great companies NEVER compromise in maintaining high technical and cultural bars.   Michael W EllisonThe inexperienced founders are running things;  Over 30% of companies fail because their management was not experienced enough to handle issues like finances, hiring, and marketing.  Take a look at the startup culture. 20-year old CEOs are building products and raising venture capital. Innovation comes naturally to younger people, especially in today’s technology driven world. But are these innovative young minds rea dy to take over day to day management?Being a founder of a startup and being its CEO are two different things. Often, people assume that the founder will become CEO, but this is where they are mistaken. The founder should only become CEO if he/she is qualified enough to take on the role. They may not have the experience required to take on tasks like expansion planning, underestimating budgets, and lack of planning or inventory issues.The team is not flexible enough;  Most startups have specific goals in mind they want to achieve. However, with the fast-changing online landscape, these plans might need to be re-visited, and having a team that cannot adapt to these changes will lead to failure. Roles might need to change, responsibilities might be re-assigned, and the team structure might also be up for debate. Most startups are not able to adapt quick enough to the changing market requirements, and therefore go under.The team was not built keeping requirements in mind;  Early on, it is important to define the core requirements the startup has of its team members. Buffer is a great example of a company that puts its customers first, and each team member they hire must fit into their company culture. This basic requirement means that each hire they make is made keeping in mind the specific requirements they have of their employees â€" they must be able to keep customers happy.  Many startups don’t think about the main requirements or values they have for their culture. These are important things to think about, and hiring based just on experience is often not the best way to go for a new startup that has to keep culture fit and even flexibility in mind.Team members are over or under-experienced;  Why would both under and over experience be an issue in startups? Let’s look at both sides of the issue.  Startup founders, when hiring new talent, can overlook experience in favor of personalities, comfort level, lower salaries or even relationships (hiring friends or family). This inexperience can be a massive issue later on if the startup starts growing because these inexperienced team members do not have the experience in their roles required to take the growth the next level. When team members are hired on a budget, and lack experience, they may also not be willing to commit the time required to learn new things, since they don’t feel they are being compensated enough.  The other side of it is an extremely experienced team, which is being paid top dollar for their work. Why would they cause failure for a startup? Simply by being too expensive, and using too many resources. Imagine paying every member of a team the most competitive rates in the market, all before the startup has made a single sale. A team like this needs to be able to deliver results extremely fast to compensate for the huge amounts of money being spent on hiring them.PROBLEMS WITH PRODUCT/MARKET FITOne of the key lessons I learned is that great startups have a blindingl y obvious, ideally really large and painful problem that the company is trying to solve. Solving this problem should drive almost every decision in the startup. â€" Vinay on Vitoto’s FailureMarket isn’t big enough to sustain high growth;  Ever had a great idea for a product, but then realized you have no idea who’d buy it? This is a common problem with startups where they get ahead of themselves, do not research the market (and potential for market growth) and end up spending too much on a product that cannot find enough consumers to sustain growth. When the total market for a product has a natural ceiling on it (let’s say 10,000 people), how can you hope to sustain growth?Enough people do not know about the product;  Great product, excellent team behind it, but no one knows (and therefore buys) it. This is a common problem with startups that don’t know how to budget properly for marketing (since it can be expensive) and are not able to take advantage of social media chann els to spread the word. All marketing need not be in the form of paid advertisements, since the cost for these can go through the roof at times. But inexperienced team members can often face the problem of not knowing how to spread the word about the product to the right people, and thus market.Product doesn’t fill a growing need;  The first things investors want to know is the problem your product will solve. If you can’t answer this, you’re going to have trouble, not just raising funds, but also attracting customers. Why do products need to solve a problem? Because eventually you are going to be interested in monetizing, and if the product isn’t filling a gap in the consumer’s life, they aren’t going to be willing to pay for it. Investors need to ensure a future return on investment, so they are very interested in products that have a big market/monetization potential.Too much competition;  As bad as it is to launch a product that doesn’t have a market, it can be tou gher to launch one that has a market but it is already saturated with the same kind of product. When you launch a product with a lot of competition, you need to be able to differentiate it from the rest. It needs to solve a problem none of the other products are able to address, or do it better.PROBLEMS WITH RESOURCESWhether its bank loans or venture capital, the process of raising money is draining, miserable, and distracting from the process of actually building something. Not just your business, but  you, are constantly on trial. It has the same effect on the psyche as a lawsuit. â€" Michael O. ChurchNot enough funding;  While bootstrapping a startup is common nowadays, a lack of funds is a serious detriment to success. A lack of funds is the biggest reason behind why startups cannot hire the right people for the initial team, since they cannot provide enough incentives to attract them. The startup also needs funds to be able to market, and also spend on equipment for product dev elopment.Too much funding;  Who would have thought too much money was a bad thing? Startups that raise a huge amount of money right off the bat, but are not strategic about spending it, will often end up hiring too many people (or people that are too expensive) before they can support them as a company. Money also gets wasted on nice-to-haves that have no return on investment â€" like company retreats and perks like laptops or smart phones. Raising too much money also makes the team lazy, and they might not realize that the funds will run out if the startup cannot start showing returns on the initial investment.Poor management of resources;  Having a great leadership team can prevent this, but an issue that strikes both startups with over and under funding is poor management of those resources. Resources like money are limited. If a company is flush with cash, it needs to manage it to ensure the money is used over a period of time â€" strategically. If it has too little money, it ob viously needs to be able to prioritize funding.Not being able to convince investors of the value of the product;  Raising funds is one of the biggest challenges a founder faces. Investors are looking for a few specific things from startups that they want to invest in, but there often isn’t enough time available to show them the value of the product in one meeting. Unfortunately, one meeting is often all you will get. Just because you are passionate about a product does not mean the potential investor will be just as passionate.  Issues like poor presentation skills, lack of detail, poor appearance or even poor timing can be factors in why an investor walks away from a meeting.HOW TO AVOID STARTUP FAILURES Entrepreneurial activity has gone up by over 25% in the last few years. However, according to Statistic Brain, 25% of startups will fail within the first year. This rate goes up over time, with 71% failing by their 10th year. Why do so many startups fail? © Shutterstock.com | Vector7In this article, we will look at (1) why so many startups fail, and (2) how you can avoid making the same mistakes.REASONS WHY STARTUPS FAILThe reasons for the high failure rate in the startup world can be attributed to one of three things: the team, the product/market fit, and the resources available. We’ll look at these one by one, and explore the various problems within each issue.PROBLEMS WITH THE TEAMIf you interview 10 fast growing startups, 9 out of 10 will say their biggest challenge is attracting top talent. It starts with the founders, is driven by vision and culture and great companies NEVER compromise in maintaining high technical and cultural bars.   Michael W EllisonThe inexperienced founders are running things;  Over 30% of companies fail because their management was not experienced enough to handle issues like finances, hiring, and marketing.  Take a look at the startup culture. 20-year old CEOs are building products and raising venture capital. Innovation comes naturally to younger people, especially in today’s technology driven world. But are these innovative young minds ready to take over day to day management?Being a founder of a startup and being its CEO are two different things. Often, people assume that the founder will become CEO, but this is where they are mistaken. The founder should only become CEO if he/she is qualified enough to take on the role. They may not have the experience required to take on tasks like expansion planning, underestimating budgets, and lack of planning or inventory issues.The team is not flexible enough;  Most startups have specific goals in mind they want to achieve. However, with the fast-changing online landscape, these plans might need to be re-visited, and having a team that cannot adapt to these changes will lead to failure. Roles might need to change, responsibilities might be re-assigned, and the team structure might also be up for debate. Most startups are not able to a dapt quick enough to the changing market requirements, and therefore go under.The team was not built keeping requirements in mind;  Early on, it is important to define the core requirements the startup has of its team members. Buffer is a great example of a company that puts its customers first, and each team member they hire must fit into their company culture. This basic requirement means that each hire they make is made keeping in mind the specific requirements they have of their employees â€" they must be able to keep customers happy.  Many startups don’t think about the main requirements or values they have for their culture. These are important things to think about, and hiring based just on experience is often not the best way to go for a new startup that has to keep culture fit and even flexibility in mind.Team members are over or under-experienced;  Why would both under and over experience be an issue in startups? Let’s look at both sides of the issue.  Startup founders , when hiring new talent, can overlook experience in favor of personalities, comfort level, lower salaries or even relationships (hiring friends or family). This inexperience can be a massive issue later on if the startup starts growing because these inexperienced team members do not have the experience in their roles required to take the growth the next level. When team members are hired on a budget, and lack experience, they may also not be willing to commit the time required to learn new things, since they don’t feel they are being compensated enough.  The other side of it is an extremely experienced team, which is being paid top dollar for their work. Why would they cause failure for a startup? Simply by being too expensive, and using too many resources. Imagine paying every member of a team the most competitive rates in the market, all before the startup has made a single sale. A team like this needs to be able to deliver results extremely fast to compensate for the huge amou nts of money being spent on hiring them.PROBLEMS WITH PRODUCT/MARKET FITOne of the key lessons I learned is that great startups have a blindingly obvious, ideally really large and painful problem that the company is trying to solve. Solving this problem should drive almost every decision in the startup. â€" Vinay on Vitoto’s FailureMarket isn’t big enough to sustain high growth;  Ever had a great idea for a product, but then realized you have no idea who’d buy it? This is a common problem with startups where they get ahead of themselves, do not research the market (and potential for market growth) and end up spending too much on a product that cannot find enough consumers to sustain growth. When the total market for a product has a natural ceiling on it (let’s say 10,000 people), how can you hope to sustain growth?Enough people do not know about the product;  Great product, excellent team behind it, but no one knows (and therefore buys) it. This is a common problem with star tups that don’t know how to budget properly for marketing (since it can be expensive) and are not able to take advantage of social media channels to spread the word. All marketing need not be in the form of paid advertisements, since the cost for these can go through the roof at times. But inexperienced team members can often face the problem of not knowing how to spread the word about the product to the right people, and thus market.Product doesn’t fill a growing need;  The first things investors want to know is the problem your product will solve. If you can’t answer this, you’re going to have trouble, not just raising funds, but also attracting customers. Why do products need to solve a problem? Because eventually you are going to be interested in monetizing, and if the product isn’t filling a gap in the consumer’s life, they aren’t going to be willing to pay for it. Investors need to ensure a future return on investment, so they are very interested in products that have a big market/monetization potential.Too much competition;  As bad as it is to launch a product that doesn’t have a market, it can be tougher to launch one that has a market but it is already saturated with the same kind of product. When you launch a product with a lot of competition, you need to be able to differentiate it from the rest. It needs to solve a problem none of the other products are able to address, or do it better.PROBLEMS WITH RESOURCESWhether its bank loans or venture capital, the process of raising money is draining, miserable, and distracting from the process of actually building something. Not just your business, but  you, are constantly on trial. It has the same effect on the psyche as a lawsuit. â€" Michael O. ChurchNot enough funding;  While bootstrapping a startup is common nowadays, a lack of funds is a serious detriment to success. A lack of funds is the biggest reason behind why startups cannot hire the right people for the initial team, since they cannot provide enough incentives to attract them. The startup also needs funds to be able to market, and also spend on equipment for product development.Too much funding;  Who would have thought too much money was a bad thing? Startups that raise a huge amount of money right off the bat, but are not strategic about spending it, will often end up hiring too many people (or people that are too expensive) before they can support them as a company. Money also gets wasted on nice-to-haves that have no return on investment â€" like company retreats and perks like laptops or smart phones. Raising too much money also makes the team lazy, and they might not realize that the funds will run out if the startup cannot start showing returns on the initial investment.Poor management of resources;  Having a great leadership team can prevent this, but an issue that strikes both startups with over and under funding is poor management of those resources. Resources like money are limited. If a company is flush with cash, it needs to manage it to ensure the money is used over a period of time â€" strategically. If it has too little money, it obviously needs to be able to prioritize funding.Not being able to convince investors of the value of the product;  Raising funds is one of the biggest challenges a founder faces. Investors are looking for a few specific things from startups that they want to invest in, but there often isn’t enough time available to show them the value of the product in one meeting. Unfortunately, one meeting is often all you will get. Just because you are passionate about a product does not mean the potential investor will be just as passionate.  Issues like poor presentation skills, lack of detail, poor appearance or even poor timing can be factors in why an investor walks away from a meeting.HOW TO AVOID STARTUP FAILURESIt’s probably obvious by now, but a great idea isn’t all you need for a successful startup. There are many things that can lead the s tartup to failure. What can you do to avoid making these mistakes?RESEARCH THE MARKETMarket research is the first thing you must do before starting up. You research might lead you to believe your product can be tweaked to match the market requirements, or be presented in a different way, or even marketed in a specific manner. Market research prior to launch, or even launch planning, is a crucial step that can help you avoid many mistakes.Take your time with research, look at different competing products, and analyze market growth. How much would the average customer be willing to pay? Can you build a sales funnel by offering free features up-front, and providing an option to upgrade their account later?This is also the only way you can avoid entering a marketing which has no, or little, potential for growth. For founders who come across this problem in their market research, the best thing to do is re-assess the product, and re-vamp is for a different market.HAVE A CLEAR VISION FOR YOUR STARTUPWhat is your goal for your startup? Where will it be in 5 years? 10 years? What future improvements can you see in it?You need a clear vision for where your startup is going, because you are going to need it to convince:Investors to investTeam members to truly commitCustomers to buyA startup that cannot convince these three groups has no hope of succeeding. So make sure you sit down and think hard about how you are going to convince each of these groups to sign on. You can visualize your vision using words, pictures, video, or any other media you can think of, but it must be easy to explain to another person.HIRE PASSIONATE PEOPLEA team that is passionate about their jobs will always give you 100%. There is no better way of ensuring your people are on-point with sales, marketing, and even product development. Hiring your first few team members based on their passion for the product (while keeping expertise and personality fit with the remainder of the team) is a great wa y to make sure your team will be off to a great start.FOCUS ON THE PRODUCT AND CUSTOMERSA passionate team will find it very easy to focus on two core things: the product, and the customer. But as a founder you must be willing to drive this attitude down from the top. Your team will look to you for guidance, and if you aren’t passionate about the product, or truly motivated to help your customers, you will soon see the same lack of enthusiasm in your team.You should also keep this in mind while researching your market. If you are truly passionate about solving a growing problem, you will do well to hear what your customer â€" or potential customers â€" have to say about how it can be solved. Get involved in A/B testing with your product development team. Take out the time to answer customer support tickets. Both these things will help you connect better with your core focuses.FIND GOOD MENTORSA great mentor is like a light on a dark stormy night. As a founder, you will have a lot o f days where you won’t know up from down, want to quit and move to a desert island. A great mentor will be able to guide you through the toughest parts of starting up a new company: raising funds and finding the right team. Don’t think you can go it alone, and start looking for people in the same industry who might be interested in advising you as you go along the road.HAVE THE RIGHT PERSON PRESENT THE RIGHT THINGS TO INVESTORSThe best startup teams (yes, teams!) have two kinds of people. The people who are passionate about product development, and the ones who can sell it to others. This second group is just as important as the first one, and ideally your co-founder (if not you) is great at schmoozing with the investors.Investors want to be able to visualize success and growth. They want to see charts that show them they will get a great return on their investment. Be ready to show this to them. Help them visualize the product in the way you see it. Learn how to transfer your p assion for the product to them early on and you will have no trouble fund-raising.Convincing investors to part with their money in one short meeting is an art, and while founders do get better over time, they need to be able to get a few key things rightInclude the following things when presenting to potential investors:ProductProduct DemandBusiness GrowthGoalsProfitSalesExpensesWith careful planning and organization you can make sure that your business does not fail. Be prepared for things to change in your company as it grows. As your company expands your employees must be prepared to change the original goals, plans, cost, duties and obligations to support your new company. This is the same for you you cannot build a business and expect your employees or partners to run the show for you.As an entrepreneur you cannot just flip a coin and hope that luck is on your side.   You have to make it happen.Here is some additional great video that you can watch learn more about why startup fail.

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more cost-effective and have longer lasting effects than medication. I would explain that it is a form of short term treatment (typically 9 to 12 weeks), but has long term results. I would explain that patients who engage in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy are likely to learn new skills, some of which may last a lifetime† (O Connor, K. P., Aardema, F., Robillard, S., Guay, S., Pà ©lissier, M., Todorov, C., ... Doucet, P., 2006). This would be extremely effective for Howard, because he would learn coping skills that would help him throughout his treatment process and life. Some of which According to the text, â€Å"Cognitive theorists begin explaining OCD by pointing out that everyone has repetitive, unwanted, and intrusive thoughts† (Comer, 2013,†¦show more content†¦According to the article, â€Å"Exposure therapy involves presenting the frightening stimuli to patients in a safe environment so that they can learn a new way of responding. If the patient is afrai d of a specific location, because she or he was assaulted there, for instance, slowly exposing he or she to the site while ensuring his or her safety can help his or her anxiety to diminish† (Vinci, et al. 2015). With this therapy, I would have him resist washing his hands after he has dirtied them and have him resist it for quite a while. According to the article, â€Å"Exposure and response prevention is the primary treatment for OCD. However, this behavioral treatment can be very challenging to implement because the compulsion that reduces a patient’s anxiety may be a mental act- silently repeating a number or phrase until the distress is released, for example- and thus unobservable† (O Connor, K. P., Aardema, F., Robillard, S., Guay, S., Pà ©lissier, M., Todorov, C., ... Doucet, P., 2006). I would use this therapy process slowly and continuously. 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The Ad Hoc Persona

Question: Translate the Ad Hoc Persona into a narrative and map buyer experience. We spend a lot of time talking about brand story and brand archetypes in MSC566. Now were looking that the other size of the puzzle, the archetypal drives within the consumer. Create a story for your Ad Hoc persona. Talk about lives and the experience where the brand or product intersects in narrative. Use the following questions to guide your story construction but speak in first person (I or we). As you create your personas story, think about the brand/organization/cause you are representing. What are their core values or archetype? You are targeting this persona as representative of your audience. Keep focused on what matters and how that manifests in their daily life. You are looking for the link that allows you to create meaning between the brand and the consumer. Pay attention to the article by Spool. Answer: Audience Engagement Persona for: Macro Appliance shop Name: John Profession: Sales manager for a retail company Age:35 Buying style: Detail oriented and rational decision maker. Purpose: To find the best value for the money invested. Objective: To replace a micro oven. Goal: To sell Kiara a micro oven. Challenge: Kiara will search for the best price. Kiara resides in a remote town in the northeastern part of the US. She has a habit of shopping online most of her things barring groceries. Her micro oven stopped working last week and has pushed the item in replacement list. It had a warranty of 2 years but has managed to function for more than 3 years now, though was given for a repair couple of times. She was quite sure even since then that the next micro oven would be a branded piece with a long working period. She is looking to purchase a new micro oven with reliability of at least seven years. She has done extensive search online to find the popular brands and their selling price in the nearby stores of the town. She is pro on browsing through online reviews of various products, and managed to read a lot of the preferred brands she had in her mind to finalize her best pick. She wanted a micro wave with all the latest functions but price is another deciding factor for her. She is ready to pay as much as $600 but the product must have high quality, durability, and all the latest features. She has find out about many international brands in the market but most of them are premium priced. As she zeroed in on her preferred brand model, she will make plans to find the micro oven with the suitable mix of reliability and price at the selected stores in the town. Kiara visits Macro Appliance shop to purchase the micro oven. She looked for the kitchen appliance section in the shop, and started looking for the available brands in the price range she was looking for. She found the brand and inquired about the features from a salesman. She was told about the features and requisite instructions to operate the micro oven. She found it quite user-friendly, and with a basic instruction manual provided, it would be lot easier for her. Kiara was mighty impressed with her choice as it had all the features she wanted to have in the new oven. Also, the micro oven came within her desired price range. To probe further, she inquired about other available brands and their selling price. She gave a call to her husband to inform about her purchasing decision before nodding to the salesman. Once agreed upon, she decided to purchase it and went to the price counter to get it done. She was given warranty card with the product and informed about their 24*7 call cen ter to assist the customers for all sorts of queries, complaints or any form of assistance.

High Acres Landfill free essay sample

Moreover, the organization must also have a strategic capacity planning to ensure that it would meet future demands and would not affect the long-term commitment with consumers. Likely, does the organization have the design and effective capacity. One example of a company that ex. bits an excellent strategic capacity planning is the High Acres Landfill in Fairport New York. The landfill was first opened in public during 1 971 at a 21 8-acre diameter. Before, the landfill receives roughly 3,000 tons of waste per day and has only 27 employees.Now, known to be owned and controlled by the Waste Management Inc. The landfill operates approximately on a 1,000-acre site and is focused on sustainability through recycling and renewable energy production. The landfill is being funded by fees paid by households who gave away their trashes. Modern landfill works in a systematic process. The management first digs a hole-?like a tub-?and wastes are being dumped there with daily cover of soil of about 6 inches. We will write a custom essay sample on High Acres Landfill or any similar topic specifically for you Do Not WasteYour Time HIRE WRITER Only 13.90 / page When the hole is eventually filled and exhausted, now forms a hill, the landfill is being planted with grass.The site is usually converted into scooper. Within the said park are recreational activities. As times goes by, the piled wastes decompose and emit a methane gas that is somehow harmful to the environment. That is why, the Waste Management Inc. Ensures that top, bottom, sides and every layer of waste dumped into the landfill are guarded by nonprogrammable liners. The liners serve to avoid leakage of a harmful toxic called lactate (produced by chemicals, heavy metals, etc. ) to the groundwater. Management is also capturing the methane gas, processing it, and turning it into clean natural gas.The said methane gas goes through a vacuum, being cooled, converted and mixed with other chemicals that will later on result to electricity for thousands of household nearby. Now, the trash becomes power. Though at first, people in Fairport, New York considered the construction of landfill as a bad thing, dirty and unpleasant to the community, a visit in the landscape will eliminate the misconceptions. As to say, the landfill itself is free of odor, except maybe when there is an arrival Of truck in the dumpiest loaded with wastes.This kind of system is not only beneficial for he community, but also for the environment. Of course, the construction and operation of High Acres Landfill and Recycling Center are still subject to state regulations to guarantee that what they do is safe for the community and maintains the sustainability they are saying. As to say, Waste Management Inc. Has an excellent strategic capacity planning. Coming up with this big thing is exceptional, turning those wastes into power. I just hope Philippines has this kind of system that can help not only preserve the wellness of nature, but also make a new one.

Elements of Art

Elements of Art Each work of art has elements of unity and elements of variety. Variety balances out unity and keeps things interesting. The center of interest or focal point is the place the artist draws your eyes first. Artists use balance in order to construct paintings. These elements of art such as unity, variety, focal point or area of interest and balance will be used to give you a better understanding. Examples from "Giorgio de Chirico" (The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street, 1914), "Pablo Picasso" (Seated Nude, 1909, Spanish), "Francisco de Goya" (Saturn Devouring His Children, 1819) and "Piet Mondrain" (Devotie, 1908) will be used merely as informational pieces to convey these elements of art.Some ways of creating unity might be to make everything in a painting a similar color, or a series of repeating shapes, or a consistent texture made with brush strokes. At times, variety coerces the eye to pay particular attention to that object.Piet Mondrain chairsVariety occurs when an artist creat es something that looks different from the rest of the artwork. For example, "Giorgio de Chirico", (The Mystery and Melancholy of a street, 1914) depicts unity and variety with light/dark (cooler and warmer hues) various shapes and lines. Unity is depicted in the repletion of the square windows, directly above the repletion of archways alongside two buildings. Variety is depicted in the chosen colors and various shapes and lines. In "Chirico's" oil canvas, variety is applied by the contrasting of warmer hues aside the cooler hues (light and dark) conveying both space/distance and receding/closeness. The unity and variety in this canvas is brought together through the repetition depicted on the two buildings, the warmer hues and light expressing depth and the cooler hues and dark expressing the closeness. These same principles of the elements...