Startups fail for the same reason markets succeed
In the current jargon a unicorn is a private company, usually venture capital backed, which has a valuation above $1 billion. They are what everyone wants to create, what all lust after investing in. However, it's also interesting to look at what happens at the other end of that success scale:
There's nothing so absurd that someone won't propose it
For example, we are bombarded with information, much of it incorrect, about food and diet. At the edges this bleeds off into the truly absurd:
If the NHS is so good then we should be spending less than everyone else
Reason rather flies out the window when discussing the NHS, that Wonder of the World that it is. Yet we do rathre insist that we must retain that very reason when discussing it. For if the structure of the NHS, that idea of not just government financing but direct government provision of health care, is so good and wondrous then we should be spending less upon it than everyone else: