Kyle Harrison
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28 Lessons from Start-ups That Failed
- Author
- Michael Dariano
- Published
- 2016
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Michael Dariano’s short study of why start-ups die — six big failure modes (not understanding customers, managing money poorly, the wrong strategy, missing key skills, bad luck, the wrong founding team) broken into 28 concrete ways companies fail. A failure-autopsy counterpart to the usual success literature.
Where I heard about it
- Morgan Housel — recommended it on Thinking and Walking — Morgan Housel (Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s Invest Like the Best, Ep. 4).
Connections
- Michael Dariano — author
- Morgan Housel — recommended it on the podcast
- Thinking and Walking — Morgan Housel — where the recommendation surfaced