What do Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Milton Hershey, Walt Disney, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey and Arianna Huffington all have in common? Here’s a clue -- it’s not that they all immediately ...

The D.C. region is consistently ranked as one of the top cities for entrepreneurs and startup businesses, but the failure rate of new businesses is also high. According to LendingTree research, the ...

So my start up has now failed after loads of investment and years of work. Our software was almost but not quite ready for market and we couldn’t secure funding to finish it off. Disheartening really, ...

The article compiles these points to give readers a single source summarizing widely cited data that appears across industry reports. A 2024 analysis by CB Insights found that commonly cited ...

It can be really hard to enter the market as a new company these days, even with the wealth of information available online. There is no shortage of possible failure points that you’ll need to ...

Many startup founders focus on external factors like market need, competition and financial management, but one often overlooked yet critical factor is their psycho-emotional resilience. Emotions ...

While we would love for all startups to succeed, the reality is that the vast majority fail. It’s not something that people often talk about, because quite frankly, it can be a downer topic. But ...

Seriously, get out of here with that garbage. Failure sucks. Learn to hate it. When people give you advice about how to run your business or, let’s be real here, how to run your life, you’ll hear a ...