Startup Failure

4 articles

Diverse startup team collaborating around a holographic business growth graph, symbolizing organized scaling and essential management functions.

What are the five essential management functions for scaling startups?

A staggering 70% of high-growth startups fail not due to product issues, but because of internal organizational dysfunction directly linked to poor management practices.

Oliver Grant·May 5, 2026

A stressed founder working late in an office, with a looming, detached board of directors in the background, symbolizing the neglect of mental health in startups.

Founders

The Founder Mental Health Crisis Is Gutting Startups. Boards Are Missing It.

A startup's board, laser-focused on quarterly financial targets, might be inadvertently signing its own death warrant by failing to recognize the founder's escalating burnout.

Ethan Calder·May 4, 2026

Founders

Failure as a Stepping Stone: Indian Startups Overcome Hurdles in 2026

Between January 2023 and October 2025, over 39,860 startups failed in India, a stark counterpoint to its status as the world's third-largest startup ecosystem.

Ethan Calder·April 21, 2026

A founder at a crossroads, contemplating the choice between a fast, unvalidated growth highway and a focused, winding path towards genuine product-market fit, symbolizing critical startup decisions.

Insights

Stop Chasing Scale: The Hard Truth About Product-Market Fit

The startup graveyard is filled with companies that scaled a solution nobody truly wanted. The hard truth is that growth without genuine product-market fit isn't progress—it's just a faster way to fail.

Ethan Calder·March 30, 2026