What Are the Most Common Mistakes That Kill Startups?

"There's only a handful of reasons that most startups fail," he says. "Cargo culting is basically like copying the people around you, but copying the wrong things" Most founders don't look at what their company did right before they raised money to raise it in the first place and instead focus on doing everything else well. The odds of success on this one are so low that like most people are gin to be getting it wrong most of the time, according to John Sutter.