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This is ridiculous. The infographic shows examples of 'successful' startups that have only been around for 2 years, then setting them side by side with 'failed' startups that took 5 years or more to fail.

And as someone else mentioned before, Zynga is far from a success story. It's one of the most memorable failures, if anything.

I'm sure the study provides very sensible results, but this infographic is a complete misrepresentation of it.

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I agree with you that this is ridiculous.

However, you really need to define success vs failure before declaring any company as one or the other.

Taking Zynga as an example, viewed from the position of "making Mark Pincus an awful lot of money" Zynga was a smashing success, while viewed from the position of "painting Mark Pincus as a credible person to do business with in the future" Zynga was a huge failure.

Also MySpace was a failure?? It sold for $500 Million. Ask Tom Anderson what he thinks about it.

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