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The Top Five Reasons your Web Startup Will Fail

Posted by Rob Lewis on Sun, January 4, 2009 4:25 PM · Filed under Denver-Boulder, Portland, Seattle, Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo , Startups · Comments

Just before everyone took off for their annual Christmas break, MakeFive's Eric Karjaluoto had his Elevator Pitch featured on Techcrunch. While I'm sure Karjaluoto had a pretty strong following to his numerous blogs - IdeasOnIdeas.com, EricKarjaluoto.com, & the MakeFive Blog - before that, there's no doubt that kind of exposure is great for your overall readership.

Karjaluoto is a co-founder of a Vancouver-based interactive agency smashLAB and has been dabbling with a couple startups recently. So when he blogged on Friday about Why your web startup will fail, his readers piled on the comments (148 and counting) and they liked what they read.

In honour of Karjaluoto's current startup MakeFive, I've summarized his blog post into The Top Five Reasons your Web Startup Will Fail:

You won’t have an audience
You’re going to run out of cash
You’ll get frustrated
The emotional rollercoaster will beat you
You’ll get excited about something else

Company:: smashLAB
Website:: http://www.smashlab.com
Location:: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

smashLAB is a digital agency (based in Vancouver, Canada) that helps organizations pinpoint and share stories through insightful strategy, smart... [more]

Company:: MakeFive
Website:: http://makefive.com/
Location:: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

MakeFive is a website that allows people to connect through top-five lists. In it users can start topics of any nature and then share their... [more]

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Rob Lewis
Rob is the President of Techvibes Media Inc. and Editor-in-Chief of Techvibes.com. His diverse background includes stints in International Trade Finance, Web Development, and Enterprise Software and he is a graduate of the University of British Columbia, British Columbia Institute of Technology, and Simon Fraser University. When not blogging on...[more]