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Newsletter for startup founders (+40k subs). 👋 I'm @nicocerdeira , the guy behind Failory. I'm tweeting from my personal account.

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Failory
6 years
Failory 2.0 is LIVE on @ProductHunt ! 🚀 We now have interviews with the founders of both failed and successful startups, articles about entrepreneurship, and carefully curated resources to make you a better founder. Check out the new 📄 content site!
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Inspired by @levelsio , we have just launched an /open page, in which we share our 💰 revenue, 💳 expenses and 📈 traffic, as well as our monthly reports. Check it out here!
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Great interview with @rrhoover , founder of @ProductHunt on how to communicate with users and build something they want.
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@hellofailory
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5 years
After months of producing, interviewing and editing, we've finally launched The Failory Podcast - talks with those entrepreneurs who have failed in the past but now run successful startups. 🔥We're currently featured in @ProductHunt 🔥
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@hellofailory
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Some really cool bots were launched on @ProductHunt during the last months: - @SummarizeBot - Slack Bot of @ProdPad - Eat More, by @marckohlbrugge - @WhereML - @buyerbotco - Karmabot, by @stas_kulesh - @GetCheckbot - RangoRango, by @petebray - @Play_Sweep - @cryptomod_io
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@hellofailory
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In March 2016 @ajlkn launched Carrd, a free platform for building simple websites without any code. In this awesome website, he explains and talks about the story behind the development of his startup. You should definitely take it a look:
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@hellofailory
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7 years
👨‍🎓💵 Learn from the mistakes committed by failed startups: 💰🕴️
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7 years
During the last weeks, some really great design tools were launched on @ProductHunt : - Paste, by @FiftyThree - @mentorola - Lunacy, by @icons_8 - @linea_app - Figma Platform, by @figmadesign - SpriteKit course, by @MengTo - GifSlides, by @SharathPrabhal - VueDs, by @viljamis
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@hellofailory
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📃 New interview with @lunchbag , founder of @lunchmoney_app : 👩‍💻 Her background on Silicon Valley ✈️ Her 8-month adventure abroad 🕵️‍♀️ Getting into freelancing ⚒️ Creating a personal finance SaaS 💰 Growing it to $40k/year and much more... 👇
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7 years
During the last days, many cool SEO tools were launched on @ProductHunt . Here are the best ones: - @BlogBing - @SquirrlyHQ - LinkMiner, by @mangools_com - @contentking - @rockingpage - @Talkwalker - @keylogs_io - @Ghost_Browser - SiteAuditor, by @ahrefs Start ranking on Google!
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@hellofailory
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4 years
🎙️ EP9 of The Failory Podcast, with @thepatwalls : 🔁 Going from economics to tech 👨‍💻 Learning to code 🚀 Launching Delite, a B2B SaaS 💀 Shutting down 🚀 Launching @starter_story 💼 Quitting his job 📈 Growing Starter Story to $9k/mo and much more!
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@hellofailory
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6 years
Everyone who's ever created something for others knows the feeling of guilt, of failure when what you've made didn't resonate. @randfish shares two really concrete ways to deal with this feeling of failure in this awesome post on his @sparktoro blog.
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@hellofailory
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5 years
Which email marketing tool should I use for my startup? @thepatwalls has recently published a huge article analyzing 107 of these as well as created a tool that allows you to filter them according to features, pricing and amount of subscribers 👇👇
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@hellofailory
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7 years
Our new side project "Entrepreneurial Lists", lists 21 people you should be following on Twitter, featuring: - @bramk - @mubashariqbal - @csallen - @marckohlbrugge - @AndreyAzimov - @gola99 - @mijustin - @ernstmul - @MatthewSpurr - Many more!
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@hellofailory
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4 years
Make sure to check out this week's Failory podcast episode with @bramk ! Topics: ☠️ His failed e-tickets marketplace 💡 The beginnings of @startupstash 😺 A lot of @ProductHunt ⚒️ His online course, @nocodemvp 🔜 The future of no code
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@hellofailory
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7 years
Leo Babauta ( @zen_habits ) started too late because of fear of failure and lack of belief in his self. He toiled in a job he hated for a long time, instead of starting a blog or building a business he loved. He is now a best-selling author and an entrepreneur.
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. @matteing is now a successful entrepreneur who a few weeks ago launched @getmakerlog ✅ However, not everything has been a success in his life. A few years ago he built @TheTaleship with the objective modernizing storytelling. But he completely failed 💀
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7 years
Entrepreneurs usually have lots of ideas for new projects and cool stuff. However, they rearely carry them out, as they are already busy with their current project. In this article, however, @mubashariqbal shares how did he automate his project.
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@hellofailory
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6 years
People make the world 🌍 go around, they also make business 📈 go around! #entrepreneurship #startup
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@hellofailory
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6 years
We now have a /team page!! Failory started as a project of one, but during the last month, it has grown into a team of five, who are all working on the mission of reducing startup failure and making startup founders better. Join us!
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These are the greatest open source product launched on @ProductHunt during the last weeks: - Blindfold, by @madbitco - Crunch, by @csimpkins - Blinks, by @Move38inc - Outline, by @Jigsaw - Dejavu, by @appbaseio - @AdGuard - Vue, by @viljamis - Apache Airflow, by @astronomerio
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7 years
Returning visitors to your website are essential to build a successful business. But, how can you keep people coming to your website again and again? @levelsio , in an interview with @csallen , on @IndieHackers , explained how he did it on @NomadList . Check it out here!
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Some cool Chrome extensions were launched on @ProductHunt during the last weeks: - @unibypass - Exodify, by @valereonmobile - Signature, by @CedricAmaya - @GetCheckbot - @TypingDNA - Macro Shortcuts, by @andyzg3 - Pelican Facebook, by @gauthamzzz - Hide Imgur, by @Swizec
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@hellofailory
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Hundreds of new productivity apps are launched every single day. Here are the coolest ones released on @ProductHunt during the last days: - @makersession - @Bonobo - @Taskade - NextTask, by @JurassicTurtle - @today_todo_app - @lovedragapp - Simple todo, by @tcodinat Ship more!
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4 years
34% of startups fail due to lack of product-market fit. Currently live in @ProductHunt , we've just launched our PMF eBook. You'll finish... 1) Understanding PMF 2) Being able to measure it for your startup 3) Knowing actionable strategies to achieve it
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7 years
Yesterday we told you about @listly_io , the Chrome extension that lets you turn HTML into Excel documents. This can be perfectly complemented with Sheet2Site, a software, by @AndreyAzimov , that generates Websites from your Google Sheets. Check it out!
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6 years
Hey Failories! After a long time with no new interviews, we have just published one with Garth Adams, a programmer who turned a script comparing airlines prices into a +$110,000/month startup 😱 Check his bootstrapping success story! 💰
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6 years
We have partnered with @getchipbot with the mision of avoiding common startup mistakes ⚠️ In this video guide, @Matt_Lo and Matt Mroczek discuss on the different typical mistakes made by businesses and how to avoid them! 👇👇👇
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@hellofailory
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6 years
👻👻 Today we launched Startup Cemetery, a project in which we've collected data and analyzed why 100 startups have failed. 📊📊 We will soon publish a huge report with all the data, but here're some interesting insights:
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@hellofailory
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5 years
During all October, Failory will be sponsored by @Cloudways , a managed cloud hosting platform that focuses on all the aspects of building and scaling a startup. Go and give Cloudways some love ❤️ for this opportunity they gave us!
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7 years
Entrepreneurial Lists has now a list of "12 Minimalistic Task Management Tools", featuring: - @culturedcode - @Anydo - @todoist - @trello - @TickTickTeam - @ZenkitHQ - @WorkFlowy - @mondaydotcom - @gettaskrapp - @outplanr And more here!
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5 years
New startups are borning every day in Ireland, particularly in Dublin. So which one should you keep watch in 2020? We wrote a huge list with 53 of them + a ton of data 👇
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@hellofailory
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7 years
Some awesome products for freelancers were launched this month on @ProductHunt : - @AceByHQ - @getdinghy - @Lancerlist - @JouleDotAI - @dispaceco - @helloliquid - Kable Freelance, by @bit4coin - Minty Academy, by @tasteminty
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Hunted by @mubashariqbal , a few days ago @moeamaya , co-founder of @monograph_io , launched on @ProductHunt a really cool product called CSS Gradient. It is a simple, colorful (and free!) gradient generator. Check it out now!
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@hellofailory
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4 years
. @pauldm has written 12 lessons he learned from listening to @thepatwalls ' episode of the Failory Podcast 👇👇
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6 years
Branding is key 🗝
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We have just launched a list called "👨‍💼 13 Not-So-Known Influencer Marketing Tools" featuring: - @SocialBlade - @dovetale - @getpeoplemap - @reelio - @famebit - @teamader - @tapinfluence - @VeloceInt - @ShelfInc - @JuliusWorks - @BuzzSumo
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6 years
Getting the first customers for your startup is usually one of the most difficult parts of growing. This, summed up to the lack of budget you have at the beginning, can beat you and force you to shut down. To avoid this, read this article by @getchipbot !
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Entrepreneurial Lists has now a list of "👷 10 Awesome Product Roadmap Tools" in which we feature: - @_noticeable_ - @3drops - @RoadmapSpace - Publicly, by @mubashariqbal - @ProdPad - @aha_io - @trello - @RoadmunkApp And much more here:
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Proposed by @tomzur of @kinsta , Entrepreneurial Lists has now a list of the "15 Best Articles on Bootstrapping", featuring posts from: - @cliffordoravec - @abdoriani - @Atlassian - @nathanbarry - @tomzur - @alexmturnbull Go now and check them:
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7 years
Dress it up how you want – "unfinished success," "pivoting," "learning"- we all fail. There is nothing we can do to stop it – making mistakes is part of life. Therefore, we need to learn how to transform past failures into successes. By @sujanpatel
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If you're still sending out the same boring newsletter or promotional offer you used 5 years ago, it's time for you to make some improvements and adjustments. You should start by testing different options. By @neilpatel
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7 years
10 Saas owners, among them @_KevinGraham , @olmykh , @christinawyvern , @tomer_ah , @mananshah212 , @z_czarnecki and @danielkempe , share their best advice and tactics to find beta testers. Amazing article written in @Chanty
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@hellofailory
Failory
6 years
Check out this interview with Joel, the founder of @browserless , "the headless Chrome in the cloud for blazing-fast web browser automation". He is generating more than 💰 $4,000/month and his marketing strategy consists of posting on niche sites.
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@hellofailory
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5 years
👻⚰️ New stone on our Cemetery! @brndnwll has just published a quick article that explains why Sip, the tech news app created by the team of @ProductHunt , was recently shut down by the founder @rrhoover and the multiple reasons that led to this decision.
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@hellofailory
Failory
7 years
We want to thank a few followers who have supported us a lot in the last weeks: - @thepatwalls - @mcknco - @siimonsander - @libinpage - @gola99 - @karanganesan - @kauntan - @luka_harambasic Thank you so much. We are really looking forward to hearing about you soon!
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6 years
"Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career." — Ryan Freitas, co-founder
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@hellofailory
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6 years
What is that will make your startup team 🤷‍♀️successful? Great advice from Eva de Mol
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@hellofailory
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4 years
@ChadhaJyot @ramsxf @gaganbiyani @faris @neerajberry @Sprig @GreylockVC @socialcapital we run a podcast that's actually about that. we launched 1.5 months ago and it is growing pretty fast 👇
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5 years
We're currently working on a review article for @Cloudways , the cloud hosting solution we've been promoting lately. But in the mean time, if you really want to start with your business, this article should contain all the necessary information:
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5 years
🔥 Story of the week We'd the pleasure to talk with @suvansh_rt , founder of @Flexiple , a freelancing platform that connects startups with developers. Through cold outreach and side projects ( @RemoteTools ), they were able to grow up to $80K/month. 👇👇
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@hellofailory
Failory
6 years
Work hard and outperform your competition 👨‍💻
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We have just published the first interview of our new section! We wanted to go big so we decided to interview @bandholz . He is the founder of @beardbrand , an e-commerce dedicated to the urban beardsman, which is grossing over $100K/month!
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@hellofailory
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7 years
Our new side project, “Entrepreneurial 👨🏼‍💻 Lists” is live on @producthunt - If you are an entrepreneur, you should definitely go and check it out 👉🏼
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@hellofailory
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7 years
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." Chinese proverb
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5 years
👻 How can a startup be making £250k/year and yet run out of cash? This is exactly what happened to the founder of VO2 Sportswear, after 3 years running. The bad cashflow management meant the shutdown of the company. 👇 Here's the full story 👇
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6 years
"Teamwork makes the dream work" 🤝
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7 years
Reddit can be a great content promotion technique. Yet, many people are afraid of Reddit, due to their anti-self-promotion policies. This great article, written by @skueong , explains the strategy you can use to still get thousands of visitors from Reddit.
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@hellofailory
Failory
4 years
We've analyzed +25 unlimited design services and wrote a long guide about them. Great way to get high-quality designs done at an inexpensive price 👇👇
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6 years
"If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large." — Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO
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7 years
Entrepreneurial Lists is now featuring @BootstrappersIO , by @BootstrappersIO , in the "15 Best Articles on Bootstrapping" list, which was proposed by @tomzur of @kinsta . If you are a bootstrapper, you should definitely check out this website!
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@hellofailory
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7 years
Our new side project, Entrepreneurial Lists, lists 11 awesome tools for cold emails: - @remail_io - Reply - @olegcl - @mailshakeapp - @prospectio - @Woodpeckerapp - @GMassForGmail - @Growth_OK - @followupcc - @PersistIQ And even more here:
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Entrepreneurial Lists, our new side project, itemizes 9 tools to be more productive: - @NotionHQ - @todoist - @stationhq - @TextExpander - @googlecalendar - @wipchat - @bossasaservice - @taskfighter
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@hellofailory
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6 years
The website is down! Sorry for the inconveniences. I am transferring the site to the Failory acquisitor 💰. I will soon write more about this!
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6 years
It's undeniable: a lifetime deal sold thru AppSumo can mean a huge influx of customers and cash (although AppSumo takes an enormous cut) to help get your business off the ground. If you don't believe me, check out this great article by @nico_lrx !
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@hellofailory
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Our new side project, Entrepreneurial Lists, lists 14 awesome SEO tools: - @serpstat - @answerthepublic - @keywordtoolio - @spyfu - @ahrefs - @contentking - @SERPStash - @Moz - @semrush - @Linkioapp - @longtailpro - @SiteAnalyzer And some more here:
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👻 Early this year, @chrisbrownridge shut down his first startup @mygawkbox after 3 years of running it, $4.4M raised and $1M+ in revenue. When we asked him what would he do differently now, he listed 7 key aspects, you can read about below. 👇👇
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7 years
Learn how @levelsio has not only faced the fears of starting an online business 🚀, but used them as motivation while building an empire of profitable businesses that cater to digital nomads. Amazing podcast by @csallen in @IndieHackers
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5 years
🔥 Story of the week! 🔥 After dropping out of university, @harrydry went back home and found a gift: a fake big tweet from Federer. That’s when he came with a business idea: fake tweets printed and sold for £30.
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7 years
Hey! We have just published an interview with @chillyorange , founder of Pagestead, a website builder. They launched in spring 2017 and were soon able to earn a great MRR with it. Pagestead now makes $7,000/month and has +140 customers. Super interesting!
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5 years
▪️Indonesia’s internet economy recently valued at $40B ▪️60% of its population is under 40 ▪️A country with a “burgeoning startup economy” Talking to players in the industry, @brndnwll compiled his research into a deep-dive on the landscape—read below👇
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@hellofailory
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6 years
Your Saturday startup tips are in 👏
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6 years
Today we published an interesting interview with him. Long story short, Sergio developed Taleship himself when he was 16 and participated in a startup competition.
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7 years
Entrepreneurial Lists has now a list of "18 Awesome Crowdfunding Tools", featuring: - @Indiegogo - @Indiegogo - @Patreon - @gofundme - @razoo - @joinrepublic - @FundedToday - @ThunderclapIt - @BackerKit - @buffer - @MailChimp - @kickboostr More here:
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6 years
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." — Mark Twain
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@hellofailory
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4 years
Interview with @sharmag88 , founder of Helpwise: - Started as an internal email tool - $20k investment to turn it into a SaaS - SEO, cold outreach, paid ads, integrations - Growing to $100k/year and more below:
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6 years
"To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art." - Chinese Proverb
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6 years
"In the early days, it's usually marketing to the rescue. Not some sales magician." Check out this quick read and excellent case study from @jasonlk of @saastr that really applies to most early-stage companies.
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6 years
You're running a fairly successful ecommerce site. You're making a decent amount of revenue. But it's not all bubblegum and roses. Anyway, there is a solution, and it's called A/B testing. Check out great guide by @davidhoos on @BigCommerce about it!
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4 years
🎙️ Failory Podcast EP14 is out! @brndnwll & @ksaitor talked about: - How Raman became a founder - The origins and shut down of RSVPD, an app to find local events - Singapore's startup ecosystem - The origin and growth of @CryptoJobsList and much more:
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7 years
During the last days, really great social media tools were launched on @ProductHunt : - @onlim_com - Shepherd, by @artpi - @ShotzrApp - @latermedia - @lightful - @tagappofficial - @1World_Online - @applytodate - @snappd - Video Montage Maker, by @KapwingApp
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4 years
- 70% of businesses fail after 10 years. - 9 out of 10 startups fail. - Product-market fit is one of the main failure causes. Here's our new research and infographic on the startup failure rates:
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7 years
One of the most common reasons for failure is the lack of a market need for your product. This great guide, by @paulcampillo on @typeform , will show you how to validate your next big idea, and prevent unnecessary costs and heartache.
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5 years
Are you running a startup? You can now quickly find traction and scale with @tuffgrowth 's on-demand growth marketing team! Make sure to check out their PPC, social advertising, CRO and SEO services!
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6 years
5 Saturday Startup Tips!
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Get to it! 🙌
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"If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs." — Dhirubhai Ambani, founder, Reliance Industries
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7 years
New interview is out! This time with @JesperBylund , founder of Lockpick Entertainment, a small game studio that after 6 years of running, went out of business due to bankruptcy. Read it to learn why you sometimes need to focus on what makes you unique.
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4 years
🔥 #8 Failory Pod 🔥 @MattGiovanisci of @SwimUniversity on spending 17 years building online ventures, failing 12 times, and growing a niche site to $35k/month. 👇👇 you can't it miss if you're into SEO, affiliate marketing or SaaS!
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7 years
"Failure is success if we learn from it." – Malcolm Forbes
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7 years
This is really smart! @50skillsInfo is a recruiting tool where employees can source candidates and make data-driven decisions on the best hire. Start hiring better people faster! @50skillsInfo
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6 years
"Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it." ― Andy Rooney, journalist
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7 years
Since @cannyHQ launch, almost a year ago, they have already changed their pricing 4 times. Read this awesome article, by @sarahhum , in which she goes over each attempt, their mistakes, and what they learned.
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6 years
"A person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it." - Chinese Proverb
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5 years
Building a brand is like going on a first date. You firstly put your best outfit. But it doesn't stop there. You still have to be friendly, have good manners, LISTEN TO YOUR DATE, and tell a great story yourself! 👇👇
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