I used to write for a tech blog that got a hundred pitches for no-name apps and companies every day. Sure, some of these emails would start with "Dear Sir/Madam" and continue: "We developed an innovative concept: a set of two connected lamps called Ping!" But most of the pitches I saw were from tech entrepreneurs pitching all the wonderful social networks, web sites and productivity tools you've never heard of. Some even sounded interesting, even if the sender was usually either insecure and desperate (“It would great if you could give us some exposure, because we don’t have any investors”) or delusional and PUMPED (“KillerStartups.com called us ‘Twitter meets Groupon!’”) The thing would vanish regardless of whether we wrote about it, so you can scratch “insufficient enthusiasm in tech blogosphere?” off that sticky note you stuck to the mirror during your post-failure introspection. So why do so many startups fail so hard? Students of failure, I have found the answers, exquisite in detail, right here on the Internet! READ MORE