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How, not just Why, Startups Fail

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Paul O'Brien
Apr 06, 2018
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Article after article, study after study, offers Buzzfeed style insight to why startups fail. It's such a popular and frequently recurring tweet that I've started chewing on WHY the question of why keeps coming up. As founders, perhaps we're asking the wrong question and shouldn't be seeking to know why but rather how (or, how come) so that we might avo…

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