the top 20 reasons startups fail (cbInsights)

And so after sifting through the post-mortems, we identified the top 20  reasons startups failed.

Since many startups offered multiple reasons for their failure, you’ll see the chart highlighting the top 20 reasons doesn’t add up to 100% (it far exceeds it).

Following the chart is an explanation of each reason and relevant examples from the postmortems.