Betting heavily on a technology that is either premature or fundamentally flawed, such as Motorola’s $5 billion Iridium satellite phone project.
Attempting to buy up an entire industry only to find that "economies of scale" turn into "diseconomies of scale" as systems break under the pressure. Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from...
Relying on complex accounting or financing tricks rather than real business growth. Betting heavily on a technology that is either
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