Elad Gil outlines four main ways in which startups fail in his blog post. The first is running out of money, which is often due to premature hiring before reaching product-market fit. The second reason is team implosion, often resulting from unclear decision making and conflicts among team members. The third type of failure is becoming a "living dead" company or lifestyle business, where the startup simply sustains itself but does not grow significantly. Finally, startups fail due to bad idea/timing/market, i.e., the product or service isn't important to the target market or the timing of the launch is wrong. The post also provides suggestions on how to mitigate these failures.
RT @dens: Great, quick post on “4 Ways Startups Fail” from old Google pal @EladGil: