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Ram Gangisetty
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As a recovering failed startup founder, I study failed startups and reveal why 90% of startups FAIL ☠️ . Learn from their mistakes and …. DON’T be one of them 🚫. Start here 👉: https://startupobituary.com/ 📍Silicon Valley
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🚨 Startup Failure Trends 2025: A Thread 🚨

Failure Rates

1. Approximately 90% of startups fail overall
2. 21% of startups fail in the first year
3. 30% fail within two years
4. 50% fail by the fifth year
5. 65% fail within the first ten years
Great on you for being vulnerable.

If I may, what caused each of these projects to fail?
Ideally both but if I have to choose one then I’d go with distribution coz you can test, iterate and get feedback faster to improve the product.
Experiment Boldly, But Plan for Profit
🚀 Sip’s innovative curation captivated users, but lacking a clear revenue model led to its downfall. Build your vision with a plan for profit!
🔗 startupobituary.com/p/sip
#StartupLessons #Monetization #Innovation
Your Best Feature Can Be Replaced
📞 Free international calls made Skype famous, but WhatsApp & FaceTime made it easier. Never rely on a single unique feature.
🔗 startupobituary.com/p/skype
CompetitiveEdge #ProductStrategy #StartupLessons
Every startup should aim for balance: Marketing, product development, and customer experience ALL matter. ⚖️ InVision’s imbalance was its undoing. #StartupSuccess
🔗 startupobituary.com/p/invision
Tomorrow's Startup Obituary post is about AI company that had great mission, founder and backing and success- yet it closed down. Find out about L1ght in tomorrow's edition of StartupObituary
Andy Rubin invented Android.
Then he raised $330M to reinvent the phone.
It was beautiful. Bold.
And then—Essential shut down.
🔗 startupobituary.com/p/essential
#startup #hardware #founderlessons
Hardware isn’t just hard.
It’s brutal.
Essential proves that beauty alone can’t sell devices.
🔗 startupobituary.com/p/essential
#hardware #tech
“When the competition is innovating faster than you, you’re already losing. ⏳ InVision’s V7 delays opened the door for Figma’s success. Speed matters! #TechLeadership #Execution
🔗 startupobituary.com/p/invision%E...
Startup Obituary : InVision
The Rise and Fall of a Design Collaboration Pioneer
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🔥 🔥 Just published 🔥 🔥

Startup Obituary : Olive

AI Must Work, Not Just Sound Good
🤖 Olive AI promised full automation, but human intervention was still needed. Don’t overhype tech—deliver real value.
🔗 startupobituary.com/p/olive
#AIHype #ProductExecution #StartupLessons
Experiment Boldly, But Plan for Profit
🚀 Sip’s innovative curation captivated users, but lacking a clear revenue model led to its downfall. Build your vision with a plan for profit!
🔗 startupobituary.com/p/sip
#StartupLessons #Monetization #Innovation
Zume had a robot named Pepe. Another named Marta.
But no one cared—because the pizza sucked.
👉 UX > gimmicks.
startupobituary.com/p/zume
#ProductFirst #StartupAdvice
The team behind Essential built one of the most admired devices in Android history.
But no one bought it.
🔗 startupobituary.com/p/essential
#startuptruth #founderfail
The product was personal.
🙏 Faith. Family. Filtered content.
VidAngel built around deep values.
🔗 startupobituary.com/p/vidangel
#Startup #Founder
The market turned.
Investors ghosted.
The burn rate didn’t stop.
Reali collapsed in months.
🔗 startupobituary.com/p/reali
#startupcrash #vc
Essential’s PH-1 had the first notch.
Apple copied it.
But Apple sold 200M phones.
Essential sold 150k.
🔗 startupobituary.com/p/essential
#startuphype #techfail
Essential’s PH-1 had the first notch.
Apple copied it.
But Apple sold 200M phones.
Essential sold 150k.
🔗 startupobituary.com/p/essential
#startuphype #techfail