Sentences with phrase «few failed startups»

A few failed startups later, he and business partner Omar Tayeb hit the jackpot with one in the nascent field of augmented reality.

Not exact matches

It shows that 90 percent of startups fail within just a few years.

It may take a while to reach that milestone, as most venture - backed startups fail (of the 33 startups that presented at the 2016 Xoogler demo day, fewer than two - thirds still have an active web presence).

Though very few startups succeed out of many that vie for funds, those that fail often make easily avoided mistakes.

Out in startup land, blogging platform Medium usually serves a few key purposes: hosting press releases, explaining why your company failed, and blasting your current or former employer.

Quite a few experienced startup founders will even tell you to fail fast.

If every entrepreneur thought of himself as a startup founder, there would be a lot more successful startups and a lot fewer failed entrepreneurs.

Most startups fail because of lack of customers, not failure of technology, yet so few entrepreneurs put in the effort to understand market potential in a disciplined way.

But the problem is that most startups try to hire for skills and experience that are irrelevant, while failing to focus on the essential few skills.

A few years ago, a failed startup, Papataka, tried to create an e-book market in Indonesia, while also selling a version of iriver e-book reader.

This wasn't a boast that other e-book retail startups could make over the past few years, like the failed, publisher - backed effort Bookish.