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Failure Rates In Early Stage Venture Deals

My friend Jeff Jarvis invited me to talk to his class yesterday. Jeff is doing something really cool. He’s teaching graduate students in journalism school how to be entrepreneurs. So these students graduate with the understanding that they have another option, they don’t have to go work for a media company. If they are so inclined, they can try to start a media company instead.

We had a pretty far ranging conversation but the most interesting part of it was in response to the question “why do startups fail?”

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