The Book

Why Startups Fail reveals how to anticipate and avoid six patterns that account for most startup failures. It provides guidance on whether and how to shut down a struggling startup, and on how failed founders can recover and learn from their experience.

The Course

Entrepreneurship Educators: You’ll find case study recommendations here, along with other ideas about how to build sessions on startup failure into your courses—or how to launch a new course focused entirely on entrepreneurial failure.

Others’ Insights

If you want to delve deeper into the causes and consequences of startup failure — how to avoid it, and how to rebound from it — you’ll find lists here of books, blog posts, and articles by entrepreneurs, investors and academics.