The Top 20 Reasons Startups Fail

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The Top 20 Reasons Startups Fail

Sandile Shabangu

01 Mar 2020 • 2746 Views

From lack of product-market fit to disharmony on the team, CB Insights break down the top 20 reasons for startup failure by analyzing 101 startup failure post-mortems.

“Why startups fail?”

So we gave those post-mortems the CB Insights’ data treatment to see if we could answer this question.

After reading through every single of the 101 postmortems, we’ve learned there is rarely one reason for a single startup’s failure. However, we did begin to see a pattern to these stories.