Why Start-ups fail?

It has been said that up to 1 in 16 start-ups (especially tech start-ups) tend to fail within the first year. I have seen this happen many times, but what can we do to try and limit this stat?

Well Techcrunch have been to talking with Blackbox, ironically a research start-up charged with calculating and collating the "Start-up genome compass" report.

To see the full report visit here

As usual the rather "feminine looking" infographic is by Visual.ly/