Product Flops and Collapsed Corporations: Business Lessons from the Failure Museum

Product Flops and Collapsed Corporations: Business Lessons from the Failure Museum
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SEAN JACOBSOHN: I have a lot of favorites. The pets.com sock puppet from 1998-- they could have been successful if they didn't build a money-losing business. Harley Davidson cologne from 1996-- it reeked the scent of tobacco. Here's an unopened bottle. No, they weren't joking. They were serious about it. There's a lot of product extensions, of cour... Read More
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