10 reasons tech startups fail: Why despite a great design some products still fail?

1. When design
is not enough…
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2. “A lot is not a number” (c) me
!
!
Olga Steidl
Growth at Linko
@olgasteidl

3. We don’t build startups
We build businesses

4. There is no Business without a Product

5. New type of Product:
where the feedback loop is almost immediate

6. Why despite a great design some products still fail?

7. //1 Development team has never seen a user

8. //2 Market is too small
… too early
… too late

9. //3 Friction is too high

10. //4 Lack of traffic

11. //5 You have only ONE product message

12. //6 Sales Cycle is too long

13. //7 Client never comes back

14. //8 You are technology dependant

15. //9 You hire too early

16. //10 You are running out of money

17. DON’T PANIC

18. sometimes we fall down
because there is something down there
we're supposed to find
!
(c) unknown

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