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Startup expert Martin Zwilling says only about half of businesses with employees survive at least five years.
Entrepreneurs who are too optimistic about their success may overlook failure patterns.
They need to test, grow, and revamp their products and services consistently for maximum success.
Almost every entrepreneur and new business owner I mentor is certain that his or her idea has a very high probability of success, and all find it hard to believe that only about half of businesses with employees survive at least five years.
They always ask me for the key reasons that other people fail, but because I ve seen so many different situations, I m have been reluctant to generalize the failure patterns.
The Real Reason Why Startups Fail Now
One of the eternal questions in entrepreneurship is why do so many startups still fail. Is it a bad idea, poor execution or are many just not cut out to be their own boss?
On The Small Business Radio Show this week, Tom Eisenmann, a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School discusses the real reasons in his new book, “Why Startups Fail”. He has interviewed over 470 entrepreneurs and has case studies including an ice cream maker, a concierge dog-walking service, and a sophisticated social robot.
Interview with Tom Eisenmann
Tom believes that too many experts focus on examples of success rather than failure. He explains that we can learn more from the many companies that have failed rather than mocking them. Tom says that knowing what these patterns are can save startups in the future.
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When Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann devised a programme based around case studies of business failure, he worried at first that immersing his MBA students in tales of defeat would depress them. He was pleasantly surprised, however, that it had the opposite and very galvanising effect.
Failure, he says, provides great lessons for success. âItâs easier to remember all the things not to do rather than the things that you should. I think focusing on failure is a very powerful thing for entrepreneurs,â he tells The Irish Times.
Harvard Business School is also an impressive start-up factory. Its alumni have founded 1,300 venture capital-backed start-ups since 2006. Nineteen of these have achieved unicorn status (over $1 billion valuation) over the last decade.