I have started over 19 brands and grown some to multi million pound turnover.
Here in the UK the start up attricion rate is 90% in the first 3 years, its usually the same reasons.
Underfunded, lack of experience, lack of infrastructure.
Business tools COST MONEY and they are designed by accountants and suit-wearing corporate hell monkeys.
I ended up building my own in house tools to help sustain and control my fast growth.
Work-books is my productization of these in-house tools.