Having seen how some startups operate, I'd say the biggest issue is marketing &sales. People get dragged into unimaginable depths of technical stuff just to avoid anything related to sales. Companies with complex tooling and processes can't figure out basic marketing plan or establish a sales process that is replicable across the board.
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Re: Ask HN: What are some of your failed startup experiences and lessons learned?
#12Trying to create an incrementally better version of an established product that already exists and is used by the target market.
Of course the founders think their version is not incremental but revolutionary, but the customers who know and use the incumbents every day see an incomplete knock-off.