{"id":4509,"date":"2012-06-03T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4509"},"modified":"2012-06-03T05:26:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T09:26:35","slug":"start-up-ideas-that-always-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/start-up-ideas-that-always-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Start-Up Ideas That Always Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/060112_0732_StartUpIdea1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"726\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jay Yarow went through a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\/What-are-some-startup-ideas-that-frequently-fail?__snids__=2525298\">Quora discussion<\/a> to identify certain trends in the failures of start-ups. He listed ten start-up ideas that never work, although he did point out that they don&#8217;t work \u2013 until they do. They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Search \u2013 companies have tried and failed to compete with Google and Bing. It&#8217;s not happening.<\/li>\n<li>Hyper-Local news. Such start-ups aim to produce news stories that are relevant to you and your neighborhood. AOL is the latest entrant in the arena. It never works \u2013 the market isn&#8217;t big enough.<\/li>\n<li>An email competitor. Google tried and failed with Wave \u2013 a product that they said would change email forever and would\u00a0displace it. Google was wrong.<\/li>\n<li>A better car company. Several companies have tried and failed to enter the car-market. You could point to Tesla as a successful example but the company in its 9 years has sold fewer than 2,000 cars.<\/li>\n<li>Kids. Several companies think there&#8217;s a huge opportunity in making things related to kids. But the market isn&#8217;t big enough \u2013 there are only 4 million new kids in the US a year, and Toy&#8217; R Us, Walmart and Target dominate it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more examples of ideas that just won&#8217;t work including social recommendations, micropayments, and music startups among others, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/startup-ideas-2011-4?op=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmarksdoor.com\/mainblog\/2012\/05\/10-startup-ideas-that-never-work.html\">Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/startup-ideas-2011-4?op=1\">Newmark&#8217;s Door<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Yarow went through a Quora discussion to identify certain trends in the failures of start-ups. He listed ten start-up ideas that never work, although he did point out that they don&#8217;t work \u2013 until they do. They include: Search \u2013 companies have tried and failed to compete with Google and Bing. It&#8217;s not happening. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/060112_0732_StartUpIdea1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4509"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4539,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions\/4539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}