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This is a very hard question to answer, since there may be so many reasons startups fail.
In fact 9 out of 10 startups are expected to fail.
Here is a small sample of 7 reasons startups may fail.


1. Failure to find unsolved customer pain:
Too many founders think that their idea is so brilliant that their best course of action is to build the product, show it to the world, and wait for the money to roll in. However, that common delusion is a major startup killer. In reality, people are reluctant to try a startup's product, because most of them fail. So they will only try the product if it promises to solve a painful problem that nobody is trying to solve.

2. Reluctance to get feedback on prototypes:
Plenty of founders refuse to let anyone see their product until it is perfect. There are plenty of reasons they make this mistake - they are afraid someone else will steal their idea so they want to get a big head start, they want to impress their peers, or they are afraid that unless it's perfect nobody will want to buy it. Failing to get feedback from potential customers is usually fatal to a startup.

3. No passion for the market:
Don't start a company if your primary motivation is to make money. The reason is simple - to be successful you will need to spend about 80 hours a week with very little pay to make your startup successful. It is not possible to work that hard and be effective unless you believe that your life's mission is to make potential customers better off by providing them your company's product.

4. Lack of skills needed to win:
If you think the job of the entrepreneur is to think big thoughts and hire other people to do the actual work, think again. One big reason that startups fail is that the founders can't do the thing that it needs most to get off the ground. Many tech startups flounder and fail because the CEO can't code when coding better than almost anyone else is the thing that must happen to build the product and get customers.

5. Ignoring cash burn:
If you don't like watching the pennies, don't start a company. Many entrepreneurs are engineers at heart. They want to build a perfect product and then dazzle the world with their brilliance. They eagerly read about how easy it has been for other startups to raise millions of dollars and think that they will be able to do the same. So they ignore the rate at which they are burning through cash, and assume that when the day comes to replenish their cash coffers, investors will break down the doors to write them checks.

6. Inability to raise capital
If you have never raised capital (money) for a startup before, chances are you will be surprised by the time and number of rejections required before you succeed. Even if an entrepreneur realizes that cash will run out, too often he starts the process too late, goes after the wrong group of potential investors, and does not present them information about the company that leads them to want to invest.

7. Weak team, poor leadership
A final startup-killer is a leader who cannot recruit and motivate the most talented people for the jobs on which the company's success depends. The simple reality is that if you are not a great leader, it is hard to learn to become one. Moreover, the leadership skills you need to get a company to 10 employees are different than what a 100-person or 1,000-person company requires.

That sums up only 7 different reasons that startups can fail, though there are many more. I hope this general answer helps. If you need help with anything more specific - feel free to ask.

Economics

Why do startups fail?

Intern with them.
If there's no post open, offer to help them for free for experience. 
After building a good relationship with them, ask them to try you out.

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Music

I want to become a studio musician without going to university. How can I get studios to notice me?

This question may be incomplete.
If it isn't - What are you trying to solve for?

if x:
then: x=?+a2

if a:
then: a=(x-?)/2

Hope that helps - let me know if I can help you further

Maths

What is x-a2=?

The most common way countries measure growth is through GDP.
GDP is an acronym for 'gross domestic product.'

Gross domestic product is the logical extension of measuring economic growth in terms of monetary expenditures - i.e. how much does a country spend?
If a statistician wants to understand the productive output of the steel industry, for example, he needs only to track the dollar or pound value of all of the steel that entered the market during a specific period.
Combine the outputs of all industries, measured in terms of dollars/pounds spent or invested, and you get total production. 

So the simplest explanation is the percentage of difference in GDP between one year & the next - this gives you a growth measurement in GDP.

How do countries measure growth?

There's a pattern here on alternate weeks - can you spot it?



Wk2 = Wk1 + £3
Wk3 = Wk2 x 2
Wk4 = Wk3 + £3
Wk5 = Wk4 x 2
Wk6 = Wk5 + £3

Therefore using this pattern for the following weeks, we get:
Wk7 = £58
Wk8 = £61
Wk9 = £122
Wk10 = £125
Wk11 = £250
Wk12 = £253
Wk13 = £506
Wk14 = £509

So therefore Wk14 - Wk 11 is: 
£509 - £250 = £259.
Week 14 prize money is worth £259 more than week 11

The lottery prize is £2 on the 1st week, £5 on the second week, £10 on the 3rd, £13 on the 4th, £26 on the 5th week and £29 on the 6th week. How much is the prize in the 10th week? How much more is the prize worth on the 14th week than the 11th week?

soh CAH toa.

So Cosine (of your angle) = Adjacent side / Hypotenuse side.

What is the cosine rule for an angle and a side?

Yes!
Mali for example had an economy that shrank
This is an inflation rate of -0.46%, or a 'deflation rate'.

Are there any countries that have a deflation rate?

Composite demand happens when goods or services have more than one use so that an increase in the demand for one product leads to a fall in supply of the other. E.g. milk which can be used for cheese, yoghurts, cream, butter and other products. If more milk is used for manufacturing cheese, ceteris paribus there is less available for butter.

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What is composite demand?

A direct transfer, or a transfer payment (or government transfer or simply transfer) is a redistribution of income and wealth (payment) made without goods or services being received in return. These payments are considered to be non-exhaustive because they do not directly absorb resources or create output.

Examples of transfer payments include welfare (financial aid), social security, and government making subsidies for certain businesses (firms).

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