Why Rdio died
This article talks about how Rdio died because it couldn’t compete with Spotify’s free, ad-supported, on-demand music streaming once Spotify launched in the United States.
Blogs and Podcasts that Will Teach You How to Grow Your Product's Revenue
Gigaom: The Life and Death of a Venture Funded Media Startup
This article talks about why a darling of the tech world, GigaOm, went out of business because money wasn’t spent in a focused way.
Totsy burns through $34 million, lays off its 83 employees, selling assets
This article talks about why the flash-sales startup Totsy went out of business despite having tens of millions of dollars in revenue because the company was very unprofitable and suffered enormous losses.
Homejoy at the Unicorn Glue Factory
In this article a tech reporter named Christina Farr talks about why the home-cleaning startup Homejoy failed because of mounting losses, poor customer retention, and other problems.
Learn by Shipping: Lessons Learned from My Money Losing Startup
In this article entrepreneur Dodd Caldwell talks about how his startup Bellstrike lost money from the get go because it didn’t solve a real problem for non-profits.
Zirtual: What Happened and What’s Next
In this article the former co-founder and CEO of Zirtual explains how the business almost went of business because of a high burn rate and how the company was saved by an acquirer.
Founder Of Fit Fuel On What You Can Learn From His Company’s Closure
In this interview Andrew Warner of Mixergy talks with Luke Burgis of Fit Fuel about why his company failed and what aspiring entrepreneurs can learn from his experience.
Today my startup failed
In this article famous entrepreneur Chris Poole talks about how his company called DrawQuest failed despite having tons of users and engagement.
Tomasz Tunguz’s Blog
Tomasz Tunguz is a venture capitalist at Redpoint. He writes data-driven blog posts about startup benchmarks and management best practices among other topics.
Nerd Marketing
Nerd Marketing helps ecommerce retailers grow their sales and profits with data-driven marketing.
A Better Lemonade Stand
On A Better Lemonade Stand the site’s creator Richard shares tips and tactics ecommerce business owners can use to grow their companies more quickly and efficiently.
The Help Scout Blog
On the Help Scout Blog, the Help Scout team teaches online entrepreneurs about growth, customer support, company culture, making a great product, and other aspects of running a business.
The Vero Blog
On the Vero Blog the team at Vero teaches online marketers how to be better at email marketing, A/B testing, marketing analytics, and other important topics related to startup growth.
The Close.io Blog
The Close.io Blog is a blog from the team behind the sales software Close.io that teaches B2B organizations how to create and run effective sales organizations.
OnStartups
OnStartups is a site for entrepreneurs that teaches them how to find product-market fit, grow their products, raise funding, hire the right team, and more.
GrowthHackers
GrowthHackers is a community of growth hackers and online marketers who share their thoughts on the industry and learn new skills from one another.
The Unbounce Blog
The Unbounce Blog teaches marketers and entrepreneurs how to create effective landing pages and become great at conversion rate optimization.
Inbound.org
Inbound.org is a community of marketers who want to learn from each other and help each other’s businesses and projects grow.
Kopywriting Kourse
Kopywriting Kourse teaches entrepreneurs and marketers how to write and improve copy so it converts visitors into sales.
The Less Accounting Blog
The Less Accounting Blog teaches small businesses how to stay compliant with government regulations and run the minutiae of their businesses in the least painful way possible.
GrowthLab
GrowthLab is a website from Ramit Sethi and I Will Teach You to Be Rich that teaches people how to start and grow successful online businesses.
eCommerceFuel
On eCommerceFuel Andrew Youderian teaches ecommerce entrepreneurs how to run and grow successful ecommerce businesses.
The Shopify Blog
On the Shopify Blog the Shopify team teaches entrepreneurs how to grow successful ecommerce businesses, deal with common problems when running a business, and more.
The Buffer Blog
On The Buffer Blog the team at Buffer teaches online marketers and business owners about social media marketing, design, and the stories of successful businesses.
SaaS Growth Strategies
On SaaS Growth Strategies Lincoln Murphy talks about how SaaS companies can grow revenue and profits by reducing churn, using successful user onboarding, and more.
Coelevate
Brian Balfour, VP of Growth at HubSpot, writes about growth hacking and digital marketing tips on his blog Coelevate.
Andrew Chen’s Blog
Andrew Chen is a famous growth hacker and angel investor. On his blog he writes about growth hacking and marketing strategies.
OkDork
On OkDork AppSumo and SumoMe co-founder Noah Kagan talks about tips to improve your life and strategies/tactics to grow your business faster and with less effort.
The Moz Blog
The Moz Blog teaches online business owners how to improve their SEO and online marketing skills.
The WP Curve Blog
On The WP Curve Blog the team at WP Curve teaches online business owners how to run and grow their businesses more effectively.
Copyblogger
The team at Copyblogger teaches entrepreneurs and bloggers how to effectively use inbound marketing to grow audiences and earn revenue.
Quick Sprout
On Quick Sprout Neal Patel shares marketing strategies, tactics, and stories that help online businesses grow more quickly and efficiently.
SaaStr
SaaStr is a blog and training company run by Jason Lemkin that invests in SaaS startups and teaches SaaS founders how to grow their revenue and profits with effective marketin and sales.
The Zapier Blog
On the Zapier Blog the team at Zapier writes about productivity, app tips, updates to the Zapier product, and in-depth guides for automating businesses and promoting them more effectively.
Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers is a successful tech and infoproduct entrepreneur who writes about business creation, productivity, happiness, marketing, and other interesting topics on his blog.
The Groove Journey to $500K MRR Blog
On the Groove blog Alex Turnbull and co share what they’re doing to grow Groove to $500,000 in MRR and give other online entrepreneurs step-by-step recipes they can use to grow their businesses too.
Kalzumeus Software
On Kalzumeus Software Patrick McKenzie teaches programmers and software developers how to grow their online businesses using smart marketing.
Backlinko
On Backlinko Brian Dean teaches you how to grow your online business’s traffic using highly actionable SEO tactics and strategies.
SumoMe Blog
On the SumoMe Blog you’ll learn how to grow your business’s online traffic and audience from the world’s best marketers and entrepreneurs.
Copy Hackers
On Copy Hackers Joanna Wiebe, Lance Jones, and their team of copywriters and conversion rate optimization experts teach people how to write copy that converts.
Predictable Revenue
On Predictable Revenue Aaron Ross and his team teach B2B entrepreneurs how to set up sales teams and processes that generate consistent revenue.
ConversionXL
On ConversionXL Peep Laja and his team teach online business owners how to grow their revenue by improving their conversion rates.