????這些自我評估中，絕大多數都和業內專家所說的一致。比如著名孵化器Y Combinator的創始人保羅?格雷厄姆2007年就曾在文中表示，創業公司倒閉的原因通常是耗光了資金或是某位創始人離職。

????斯蒂夫?霍根經營著一家名為Tech-Rx的公司，教創業公司如何扭轉不利局面。他表示，那些由一個人（也就是沒有合伙人）創立的公司是最容易失敗的。而產品需求，或者說缺乏產品需求，則排在第二位。他還表示，如果有聯合創始人，就能規避掉CB Insights圖表中一些靠后的問題，比如團隊不和諧，營銷不力，以及團隊人員不合適等。

????他還說，資金用光并不會讓創業公司倒閉——那只是其他問題的癥狀而已。如果排除掉“胡亂花錢”或是創辦時就缺乏募資能力這些原因，創業公司之所以容易花光錢，主要是因為首席執行官忽視了所有其他失敗的苗頭。他說：“不幸的是，有時候缺錢卻是領導層所能看見的唯一‘癥狀’。”（財富中文網）

????譯者：清遠

????The self-assessment lines up, for the most part, with what industry experts have said. Paul Graham, a partner at the Y Combinator startup accelerator, wrote in 2007 that startups usually die because they run out of money or a founder leaves.

????Steve Hogan, who runs a startup turn-around shop called Tech-Rx, says companies with founded by one person—that is, no partners—are most likely to fail. He ranks product demand, or a lack thereof, second. The existence of a co-founder helps avoid many of the reasons cited at the bottom of the CB Insights chart, he says, including disharmony, poor marketing, and the wrong team.

????Running out of cash does not cause a startup’s failure, Hogan says—it’s merely a symptom of another issue. Excluding instances of “stupid spending” or the inability to raise capital in the first place, startups tend to run out of cash when a CEO has overlooked all other indicators of failure. “Unfortunately, sometimes it’s the only ‘symptom’ that the leadership sees,” he says.