Why Startups Fail and How to Change that. | Mira Wilczek | TEDxBeaconStreet

Mira Wilczek, leader of Cogo Labs, a data startup incubator in Kendall Square, talks about why 80 percent of startups fail, and how to ensure that 80 percent of them succeed.

subtitles - "The Problem with Problems" & "The Destructinator and Why it Matters" Mira Wilczek is President and CEO of Cogo Labs and a Senior Partner at Link Ventures. She serves on the Board of Directors at EverQuote, CareDash, and Hopjump, and the Advisory Board of Vestigo Ventures. She is also a Co-Director at the Brahe Educational Foundation. In 2017 Mira was named Top 40 Under 40 by the Boston Business Journal.

Prior to joining Cogo, Mira was founder and CEO of Red Panda Security, Principal Investigator under the DARPA CFT program, and Director of Business Development at Lyric Semiconductor, where she garnered industry recognition including TR50, Silicon 60, and an EE Times ACE Award and led the successful sale of the company to Analog Devices. She started her career as an ethical hacker at IBM, architecting their first automated penetration testing platform.

[pgutierrez]

Good talk. Just some feedback: I would like to learn 1 or 2 ways to begin finding and solving a problem for a startup. Thanks!

[xibalxibalba]

Thank you Mira, you've put it so simply I thank you very much!!!!

[milindchavan]

How can someone defines "The Right Problem"?

[hammadbhatti]

Im sorry but i tried to get what she was saying but … this speech seemed like she made it up on the spot lol

[xibalxibalba]

Does any one know how to find out data for a sector you want to do business in?

[JasonLee-fcot]

Words of quasi-wisdom coming from an investor. So, only large problems need to be solved. And don’t forget the wallet sizes of the problem holders. Those are your investment criteria, not the reason why startups fail. So you think you solved the high rate of failure of startups by telling them to work on a bigger problem? I don’t think you actually have solved it…

[bmebri]

We Work? This video didn't age well.

[ncertbookreader]

🙄🙄🙄🙄One thing...12mins....save that...just GO AFTER THE RIGHT PROBLEM....!!
the only thing I understood from her speech...why these people don't speak properly...half of the words sounds like...career(khari-arr)... problem (frau-blum)... infrastructure (infra-us-sthra-ctarrr) return (re-th-earn)... I'm fed up with these kind(khy-nd) of pronunciations