{"id":1036,"date":"2014-11-24T03:25:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T21:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2015-05-31T14:55:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T09:25:32","slug":"why-startups-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/24\/why-startups-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Why startups abort?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-430\" src=\"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Product market fit:<\/b> \u00a0Let\u2019s say you have built an e-commerce product targeting the local market but it has limited internet penetration &amp; \u00a0online banking close to 0%. What happens to your product? It becomes restricted and misfit in the market you are targeting.<\/p>\n<p><i> Uber changed its payment policy in India because less than 10% of the Indian population owns a credit card.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Traction: <\/b>When you have built a product with little dissimilarity from existing players in the market, how are you going to compete and get purchase?<\/p>\n<p><b>Difference of opinion among founders: <\/b>Building a startup is much more than entering into a relationship or finding a friend. It requires a lot of hard work, patience and dedication and is definitely not for everyone. In startups, it is common to see differences in opinions among the founders which results in a bungle.<\/p>\n<p><b>Lack of funding: <\/b>Nobody will fund you if you fall in the above three categories namely where you have no money, no traction, no product\/market with illogical partnerships among founders.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Product market fit: \u00a0Let\u2019s say you have built an e-commerce product targeting the local market but it has limited internet penetration &amp; \u00a0online banking close to 0%. What happens to your product? It becomes restricted and misfit in the market you are targeting. Uber changed its payment policy in India because less than 10% of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/24\/why-startups-fail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why startups abort?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}