business failure Archives

A Blockbuster Retail Franchisee Reveals Why The Chain Was Built to Fail

The following is adapted from the book "Built to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster’s Inevitable Bust." Blockbuster was built by one of the most successful entrepreneurs in history, Wayne Huizenga. Before turning it into...

byAlan Payne

June 29, 2021

WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Small Business Failure Statistics Don’t Tell the Whole Story (Episode 234)

On today's Business Beat, Jeff discusses the deeper meaning behind small business failure statistics — and what you should do to make sure you don't become a part of those numbers. According to data from...

byStartupNation

June 4, 2021

WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Make Sure Your Business Model is Sound (Episode 134)

Just six short months after it went live, Quibi, a mobile streaming service focused on providing short-form video content, declared it was shutting down. What went wrong? Jeff breaks it down in this morning's WJR...

byStartupNation

October 27, 2020

How Failure Sets You Up for Success in Business, According to 6 Top Entrepreneurs

If they’d given up when they got knocked down, these top business founders and advisors in The Oracles wouldn’t be the success stories they are today. Here, they share what they learned and explain how failure helped...

byThe Oracles

September 19, 2020

WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Fear of Failure During COVID-19 (Episode 26)

On this morning's WJR Business Beat, Jeff talks about the fear of failure during COVID-19, including insights from successful local entrepreneur, Jim Bellinson, who shares his own struggles as he fights to keep his businesses alive....

byStartupNation

April 6, 2020

How Entrepreneurs Can Overcome the Fear of Failing

Fear comes in many shapes and sizes. It can affect all areas of our lives, including business; and one of the most common business fears is failing. In fact, Statista reports that as many as...

byErik Bergman

February 10, 2020

Top 5 Reasons Why Startups Fail (and How You Can Avoid the Same Mistakes)

It goes without saying that every entrepreneur wants their startup to succeed. While starting a business, your passion and drive is often the easy part, while trying to keep your business afloat and heading in...

byHasib Howlader

September 28, 2018

StartupNation Originals: How to Find the Right Business Coach

In “You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth,” #1 New York Times best-selling author, success coach and motivational speaker, Jen Sincero, offers expert tips for unlocking your earning potential. In this...

byStartupNation

September 24, 2018

When Disruption Backfires: My Adventures Saving Startups From Death by Politics

The following is excerpted from "The Fixer: My Adventures Saving Startups from Death by Politics" by Bradley Tusk with permission of Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC....

byBradley Tusk

September 18, 2018

3 Marketing Mistakes That Are Crushing Your Business

As someone who has chosen marketing as a career, hosts a podcast about marketing (Marketing School, co-hosted by Neil Patel) and owns a digital marketing agency, you may think I haven’t made marketing mistakes. You’d...

byEric Siu

May 7, 2018

How Cash Flow Can Destroy Your Business (and How to Prevent It)

What’s the most important factor in keeping your business alive? You might think the answer is profitability; after all, as long as you’re making more money than you’re spending, you should have ample resources to...

byLarry Alton

November 8, 2017

7 Secret Weapons to Help You Bounce Back from Business Failure

When you’ve put all your time and energy into a business idea, seeing it fail can be a soul-crushing experience. It’s certainly not uncommon, though, and the rate of business failure gets higher with every...

byBlair Nicole

November 6, 2017

5 User Testing Mistakes That Even Experienced Startups Make

"We had a big idea and we freaking went for it," Kash Shaikh, Besomebody CEO, wistfully told the company's community earlier this year. The Boston-based business, Shaikh continued, would then shut its doors the very next day. It's...

byDarshan Mehta

September 21, 2017

How to Embrace Failure and Succeed [Book Excerpt]

We are living through a global entrepreneurial renaissance. Entrepreneurs are everywhere and thanks to the Internet, as well as technologies enabled by open source and cloud computing, there has been no better time than the present...

byAsh Maurya

June 20, 2016

Why 75% of All Startups and New Products Fail

Will your new business fail? Recently, a study by Harvard Business School’s Shikar Ghosh shows that 75 percent of ALL new businesses fail. In addition, a great number of new products and services in the...

byNkem Mpamah

August 14, 2015

Failure Turns Floundering into Thriving

Four Ways to Turn a Floundering Business into a Thriving Business Most businesses launch as a result of need in a certain marketplace, in response to demand for a specific product, or with an innovation...

byBen Walker

June 17, 2015

Doing Whatever it Takes can be a Bad Thing

Business failure is not the direct result of a few behemoth mistakes made without warning or insight but rather the culmination of mismanaged business practices and bad decisions made overtime. That is not to say...

byLori Williams

November 26, 2014