What is the biggest challenge that startups face?

Question for all of you startups out there:

What's been your greatest challenge? Or what have you needed the most help with?

1. Creating a Business Strategy
2. Raising Money (Finding and/or Pitching Investors)
3. Building Your Product, App or Website
4. Finding Customers
5. Recruiting a Great Team
6. Something Else

The two biggest causes of Startup Failure are: Team and Time.

Team - not having one, not having the right one, or change of team dynamics over time. All of these things contribute to Startup failure. Something like 60% of Startups fail because of the team.

Time - not having enough time to get to the next step on the path to success. There's that Einstein quote: "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety nine percent perspiration", and in the Startup world, "perspiration" a good chunk of the perspiration consists of "perseverance".

Initially, my startup isn't aiming to gain money immediately, but to gain an audience. People to try my app and give feedback. So, #4

How i am covering the other items in your list and not seeing them as a problem:

(#1. My business strategy was simple, being a simple-minded person: My short-term goal it to get traffic. My long-term goal is to sell it off. So my short-term and long-term goals are somewhat connected hence I just need to keep building the app. (At least this is working for me)

(#2. Raising money isn't an issue because i just want to build apps, hence i'm funded by my passion; i work during my free time and don't need money as i have the tools i need to develop apps and i am alone.

(#3. Build product: I'm here - it isn't easy but i have some momentum. I'm learning everyday and i'm getting somewhere. I don't see this as my biggest challenge yet because I am personally having fun building.

(#5. Recruiting a great team - i'm still able to do things on my own, so for my startup there aren't any concerns regarding a team just yet.

(#6. Something else -- i'm really finding myself worried about gaining customers and their feedback, so right now nothing else matters

• this is just my opinion, for my startup, and i am just answering what my startup's biggest challenge is currently. I can't speak for all other startups. Hope this helps!

#5 Finding a great team is the biggest challenge. With so many different paths a startup can take, having a team that can always find common ground on goals and work logically and collectively through each step is (imo) the most important part of getting your startup off the ground.

With a great team, everything else will come naturally with hard work and dedication.

Promoting business and I would like to prefer to online business communities sites. This is very cost effective and helps in generating new leads and branding business also

1) This was very easy for us because we both shared the same goals and thoughts so this went fluently

2) Explained in 4

3) We created our business mainly in our spare time and had a product for 95% finished when we started to create costs

4) For us it will be this and indirectly cause #2

We created a game on Windows 8 but there are very few people that actively use the Market to download apps and thereby on the longer run will not get us enough funds to survive when our own resources will be almost depleted after 6 months. We are currently looking for more customers by expanding our product to different markets (iOS, Android etc.) but currently that is the biggest struggle atm.

5) We both can fill the main professions needed for our company thereby we contacted and contracted 2 others for the missing parts to create a full fledged product

6) I guess staying motivated enough is a small challenge for us and combining our job with other jobs (for creating an income) and diving into unknown territory but hey that's part of the whole being a start up risk.