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    Why Startups Fail

    My book Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success is organized in three parts. Part I looks at three common failure patterns for early-stage... View Details
    • 5 PM – 6 PM EDT, 21 Apr 2021
    • Virtual Programming

    Why Startups Fail

    HBS Professor Tom Eisenmann will discuss insights from his book, Why Startups Fail, with two failed alumni founders: Christina Wallace (MBA 2010), cofounder of Quincy Apparel and now Senior Lecturer at HBS, and Lindsay Hyde (MBA 2014), cofounder of Baroo, now... View Details
    • 20 Aug 2021
    • News

    Why Startups Fail

    • 20 Aug 2021
    • News

    Why Startups Fail

    • 12 Dec 2022
    • News

    Why Some Startups Fail to Scale

    • 30 Apr 2021
    • News

    If You Want Your Startup to Succeed, You Need to Understand Why Startups Fail

    • 22 Apr 2021
    • Video

    If You Want Your Startup to Succeed, You Need to Understand Why Startups Fail

    • 03 Oct 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

    Glass profile database, which collects work history and education data from various public and private sources. Combined with Dow Jones VentureSource data, the list was winnowed to 14,000 founders of VC-backed companies who listed a post-startup job. View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 Jun 2021
    • News

    Harvard Business School Professor Says 65% of Startups Fail for One Reason. Here's How to Avoid It.

    • December 2021
    • Supplement

    Troverie (B)

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Lindsay N. Hyde and Olivia Graham
    Resolves the questions raised in Troverie (A); recounts pivots and efforts to raise capital from strategic investors and sell Troverie; and shares the founder's post-mortem reflections on what went wrong and what he might have done differently. View Details
    Keywords: Startup; Failed Startup; Luxury Goods; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Failure; Luxury; Fashion Industry; United States
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    Eisenmann, Thomas R., Lindsay N. Hyde, and Olivia Graham. "Troverie (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 822-069, December 2021.
    • May–June 2021
    • Article

    Why Start-ups Fail

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
    If you’re launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor of entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School set out to discover why. Based on interviews and surveys with hundreds... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Problems and Challenges; Failure
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    Eisenmann, Thomas R. "Why Start-ups Fail." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 3 (May–June 2021): 76–85.
    • 03 Aug 2021
    • News

    Why do startups fail?

    • 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 15 Nov 2016
    • Webinars: Career

    Joining the Right Startup

    Startups are like infants: brand new, exciting, bursting with hope and potential. Unfortunately, if you're thinking about joining a startup, that excitement doesn't help much. It often confuses the issues about which deals could succeed and which could fail or, more... View Details
    • 24 Feb 2014
    • News

    Fighting co-founders doom startups

    • 26 Jul 2021
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    The Best Business Startup Ebooks

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    Lean Startup Management Practices

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann

    Many information technology startups have embraced "lean startup" management practices. Lean startups confront high levels of uncertainty about both customer problems and product solutions: the strength of demand for new... View Details

    • 06 Sep 2021
    • News

    Tom Eisenmann: Startups and their Wrong Decisions

    • May 2014
    • Article

    Making 'Freemium' Work: Many Start-ups Fail to Recognize the Challenges of This Popular Business Model

    By: Vineet Kumar
    The article discusses the "freemium" business model, which is used by some Internet businesses and smartphone application developers to give users free basic features of a digital product and access to premium functionality for a subscription fee. The discussion topics... View Details
    Keywords: Freemium; Startups; Product Design; Business Model; Marketing; Business Startups
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    Kumar, Vineet. "Making 'Freemium' Work: Many Start-ups Fail to Recognize the Challenges of This Popular Business Model." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 5 (May 2014): 27–29.
    • 2021
    • Book

    Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
    Why Startups Fail explores entrepreneurial failure, examining its predictable patterns, how to avoid them, and how to cope when failure does occur. Part I looks at three common failure patterns for early-stage startups, illustrating each with an anchor case... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Failure; Success; Framework
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    Eisenmann, Thomas R. Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success. New York: Currency, 2021.
    • 07 Nov 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation

    Keywords: by Ramana Nanda & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
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