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Will Goto@wrgoto18 Nov 2021
I was interviewed by @hellofailory about how @macgillbdavis and I raised over $3.1 million for our startup, had to shut it down, and now gaining traction with our new bootstrapped business. Take a look, and learn from our mistakes. 👀 failory.com/interview/rize

Shutting Down a VC-Backed Startup to Build an $11k/mo Business

Will co-founded Rize, a productivity tool that tracks your time. In October, they made +$11k in sales, while still being a two-person bootstrapped team.

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Shared our backstory and why we created @TallyForms with @hellofailory. Thanks for sharing our story! failory.com/interview/tally

Bootstrapping a Freemium No-Code Form Builder to $6k MRR

Marie co-founded Tally, a no-code SaaS tool to create forms. They launched a year ago and have reached 12.6k users and $6,000 MRR while being bootstrapped.

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🚀 I'm working on Failory's #1 online course, launching on September 30th. It's called "Pre-Sell to Validate". It's about strategies to validate startup ideas by pre-selling them. And yeah... I'm pre-selling the course as well. You can get it here 👇 failory.podia.com/pre-sales

Pre-Sell to Validate

Learn an actionable framework to validate startup ideas through pre-sales.

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🥳 Launching @hellofailory's Google Cemetery today! A list of +100 dead Google products, and analyses of why they failed. producthunt.com/posts/google…

Failory: Founders make mistakes - the best ones learn from them | Product Hunt

Failory is a community visited by startup founders every day to read articles about entrepreneurship, interviews with failed and successful founders, insightful postmortems and our monthly reports.

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I've just put together a list of 72 PMF resources: ▫️ 48 are case studies on how @Superhuman, @segment, @classpass, @intercom, @Airbnb, @SlackHQ, and @PayPal achieved it. ▫️ 24 explain the concept, how to measure it and 4 frameworks to achieve it. nicocerdeira.com/product-mar…
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🚨 Launch alert! After 4 weeks of work, I've just launched @hellofailory v3. It's a complete re-design plus a new project: the Amazon Cemetery, where we analyze Amazon's failures. It's live on Product Hunt 🚀 producthunt.com/posts/failor…

Failory: Founders make mistakes - the best ones learn from them | Product Hunt

Failory is a community visited by startup founders every day to read articles about entrepreneurship, interviews with failed and successful founders, insightful postmortems and our monthly reports.

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$2B in funding. A team of industry veterans. And still a failure? Here are the 7 things to blame for @Quibi's failure 👇
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November open report for @hellofailory 💵 Revenue: $3,961 (+87.02%) 💳 Expenses: $1,202 👁️ Pageviews: 175,281 ✉️ New email subscribers: 225 Here are some more details 👇
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I sold @Baremetrics! After 7 years of work building this little company, Baremetrics has a new home. See the numbers, how we got here, what's changing (and what's not), what's next and more! baremetrics.com/blog/i-sold-…

Selling a $4M SaaS: Inside the Baremetrics Acquisition

2020 has turned in to one of the most unusual years of my life, for both the obvious reasons but also for reasons I definitely wasn't expecting at the

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Really happy to have this interview go out with Nico on Failory! Thanks for the fun opportunity! failory.com/interview/softwa…

Growing a SaaS-Related Paid Newsletter to $8k/mo in 4 Months

Kevin is the founder of SoftwareIdeas, a newsletter that sends validated SaaS business ideas. In only 4 months, it grew to +$8k/mo from 400 paid readers.

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Thanks @hellofailory for featuring me! We're growing so fast that by the time the interview got published, the numbers I shared were way out of date! 😂 failory.com/interview/plausi…
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Failure is *necessary* for growth! I take failure very seriously, I even talk about why learning to fail is so important in lectures I give I recently sat down with the awesome people @hellofailory to discuss my past failures 👇🏾 failory.com/interview/zapstr…

How we went from $1M raised and 100k users to shut down

Zapstream was a social live streaming platform, which competed with Periscope. They raised $1M from angels and grew to 100k users before shutting down.

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Okelo@TheOkelo9 Oct 2020
I pre-ordered Product-Market Fit: Deep-dive into how 7 startups achieved it from @hellofailory on @Gumroad: gum.co/product-market-fit-ca…

Product-Market Fit: How 7 startups achieved it

34% of startups shut down due to lack of product-market fit. Yet, there's a way to prevent it: turn PMF into your main metric. That's what Superhuman did...

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The list of #investment #failures by @ycombinator written and explained by the excellent @hellofailory (a must-subscribe for me). #productmanagement #startup #vc #investment #digital #failure #entrepreneurship failory.com/blog/y-combinato…

Biggest Y Combinator Failed Startups

+400 YC-backed startups have closed their doors in the last 15 years. Here are some of their biggest failures.

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My interview on @graphitedocs’s failure is out on @hellofailory. It’s really important to talk about failure in order to learn from it. I hope this helps others! failory.com/interview/graphi…

From $20k/mo to 0 - Bad market focus killed Graphite Docs

Justin created Graphite Docs, a privacy-focused alternative to Google Docs. The business shut down while trying to transition from B2C to B2B model.

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The clearest sign of finding product-market fit is feeling "pull" from the market. But what does "pull" look like? 👇 Read on 👇
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🔥 New post: The moment 25 of today's most interesting companies realized they found product-market fit Stories from @netflix @Uber @Airbnb @Superhuman @substack @Tinder @Instacart @stripe @Dropbox @datadoghq and many more Takeaways in thread below 👇 lennyrachitsky.com/p/what-it…
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Product-Market Fit: Deep-dive into how 7 startups achieved it You'll learn how 7 successful startups, including Superhuman, Setapp, and ClassPass, achieve product-market fit. @nicocerdeira gumroad.com/l/product-market…
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1/ Startup Mistakes: First-Hand Lessons from 80+ Failed Startups via @hellofailory Failory analyzed why +80 startups have failed and identified some of their common mistakes.
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