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  2. Business failure - Wikipedia

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    The Small Business Administration, in an article on small business failure, [2] lists additional reasons for failure from Michael Ames' book on "Small Business Management": [3] lack of experience; insufficient capital; poor inventory management; over-investment in fixed assets; business's finance mismanagement; poor business location

  3. Common cause and special cause (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    A special-cause failure is a failure that can be corrected by changing a component or process, whereas a common-cause failure is equivalent to noise in the system and specific actions cannot be made to prevent the failure. Harry Alpert observed: A riot occurs in a certain prison.

  4. What I learned from a series of business failures before ...

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    The root causes for both success and failure have nothing to do with innovation or the venturing process itself. ... not the new business initiative, based on a common understanding of the market ...

  5. Business risks - Wikipedia

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    Business risk implies uncertainty in profits or danger of loss and the events that could pose a risk due to some unforeseen events in future, which causes business to fail. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] For example, a company may face different risks in production, risks due to irregular supply of raw materials , machinery breakdown, labor unrest, etc.

  6. Market failure - Wikipedia

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    Different economists have different views about what events are the sources of market failure. Mainstream economic analysis widely accepts that a market failure (relative to Pareto efficiency) can occur for three main reasons: if the market is "monopolised" or a small group of businesses hold significant market power, if production of the good or service results in an externality (external ...

  7. Jeff Bezos’ Most Outrageous Business Failures - AOL

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    In 1994, Jeff Bezos co-founded the future e-commerce behemoth Amazon in a Seattle garage. Previously employed by a Wall Street hedge fund, he quit his job to try his hand at building an online...

  8. List of corporate collapses and scandals - Wikipedia

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    List of bank failures in the United States (2008–present) List of largest U.S. bank failures; List of sovereign defaults; List of stock market crashes and bear markets; List of UK businesses entering administration during 2008–2009 financial crisis; List of accounting scandals; List of defunct airlines; Agency cost; Center for Audit Quality ...

  9. Jeff Bezos’ Most Outrageous Business Failures - AOL

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    In 1994, Jeff Bezos co-founded the future e-commerce behemoth Amazon in a Seattle garage. In an interview with Time magazine, the Amazon CEO revealed he gave himself a 30 percent chance that ...