Startup Failure

Growing a Business

8 Steps to Transform Your Failed Business Into a Success Story

If your business is struggling, take the advice here to thoroughly review what's not working and brainstorm new approaches. Reinventing it takes effort, but it could be what turns failure into your future success.

Leadership

What Taylor Swift, Mark Cuban and Michael Jordan Can Teach Us About Embracing Failure

Failure is not a four-letter word; it's a stepping stone to success

Thought Leaders

I Almost Died While Skydiving. Here's What it Taught Me About Resilience, Fear and Life

Amazing happens when you step out of your comfort zone. It all works out — it always has.

Leadership

Entrepreneurs, Beware of False Summits. Here's How to Identify and Avoid Them

With some planning and a good dose of forethought, false summits in business are avoidable.

Growing a Business

Why Failure Is Crucial To Success

The best of the best fail. It's how you respond that leads to success.

Growing a Business

Bounce Back: How to Quickly Recover From Setbacks and Train Your Brain For Success

Don't just shake off your failures; whine about them.

Thought Leaders

Most Startups Fail. Will You Hire an Entrepreneur?

Regardless of a successful exit or startup failure, there is something most entrepreneurs have in common--they are problem solvers capable of finding their way out of any situation.

Entrepreneurs

Four Mistakes That Led to the Failure of My First Investment

Reasons that made a venture not perform and fail are going to help you in not making those mistakes yourself

Marketing

3 Marketing Mistakes That Kill Tech Startups

You'll never reach unicorn status if you make one of these mistakes.

Business News

5 Epic Product Fails and the Lessons They Can Teach Your Small Business

Remember the Juicero? The Zune? Those globs of gelatin floating in Orbitz soft drink bottles like drinkable lava lamps?

Starting a Business

Infographic: The 20 Most Common Reasons Startups Fail and How to Avoid Them

These do's and don'ts can make or break your startup.

Thought Leaders

10 Reasons Why 7 Out of 10 Businesses Fail Within 10 Years

There's a fierce tide of potential for failure in business. Half of all businesses won't make it to the five-year mark.

Entrepreneurs

Why Entrepreneurs Need to Embrace their Failures

Vishwas Mudagal, says failure in past ventures taught him a great deal

Growth Strategies

Mentoring is Corner Stone of Corporate Governance for Early-Stage Companies

One possible route for start-up entrepreneur to meet governance requirements is to have a "mentor" who can act as their friend, philosopher and guide.

Business News

7 Reasons Your First Business Will Fail

If you understand why this is the case, you'll be able to better prepare yourself and potentially avoid some of the pitfalls of first-time business ownership.