Lessons From A Failed Startup

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Perry Ogwuche who was previously a YC founder talks to other founders from the YC community and beyond with inactive companies to learn from their stories and unique experiences with running a business that they eventually had to shut down. Lessons from a


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    Will investors invest in a founder who has had a failed startup? w/Nathan Lustig of Magma Partners

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 35:44


    Nathan Lustig, the managing partner of Magma Partners, a seed stage investment fund, shares his perspective on how he views founders with a failed startup under their belt.Learn more about Nathan:- Blog: https://www.nathanlustig.com/about/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/nathanlustig- Magma Partners website: https://www.magmapartners.com/- Crossing Boarders podcast with Nathan Lustig: https://latamlist.com/crossing-borders-with-nathan-lustig/- Episode with Alejandro Freund: https://latamlist.com/alejandro-freund-the-path-to-shutting-down-a-latin-american-startup-ep-132/

    The importance of building your company for customers and not investors w/Praful Mathur

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2021 52:48


    Praful Mathur shares his experience with building a YCombinator company and loosing his  co-founders and biggest investor in the process. https://www.linkedin.com/in/prafulmathur/

    Getting back to the workforce after shutting down a company w/Ayush Kumar of Vitrix Health

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 44:14


    Ayush Kumar shares his experience with shutting his company and trying to get back into the workforce afterwards. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akumar0630/

    Shutting down one company and getting an acquisition offer the next day w/Peer Richelsen

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2021 62:53


    Peer and I talk about his experience with shutting down his company Mage and getting an acquisition offer for his newer company Lean Hire, from On Deck, the very next day, which was when we recorded this episode. Peer now serves as the head of product at On Deck. Lean Hire Acquisition: https://www.beondeck.com/post/lean-hire

    Why Glio, the first Latin American company in YC shut down with João De Paula

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2021 58:48


    João De Paula previous co-founder and CTO of Glio, the Amazon market place for Latin America shares his story about building the company and having to shut it down after 6 plus years of running it. 

    Shutting down a growing business at it's peak with Gaurav Maken of Mylk Guys

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2021 45:28


    Gaurav Maken, previous co-founder of YCombinator's Mylk Guys shares his experience with building a growing business that he had to shut down at the height of their growth. Gaurav talks about the importance of focusing on what matters for your business and the importance of learning from the successes and failures of founders.https://twitter.com/gauravmakenhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/gaurav-maken/

    The story of YCombinator's GoScale (Heroku for pHp) and why it failed, with Co-founder Colin Hayhurst

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2020 46:38


    Colin Hayhurst a successful entrepreneur , and startup mentor, shares his experience in starting and shutting down the YCombinator backed company GoScale that he co-founded with James Cunningham. The YC practice interview app, referred too, can be found here and the associated TechCrunch article here.Colin has a deep technical and commercial background with startups in engineering and applied physics software, web infrastructure, machine learning and search. He alo spent several years supporting and mentoring numerous technology startups. He is the CEO of Mojeek, the first privacy based and only web-crawler search engine that does not track.

    Being okay with the fact that your startup idea might be a bad idea and the importance of a good network

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2020 51:19


    Renji Bijoy, founder and CEO of ImmersedVR talk about his company AraJoy which pivoted to becoming Immersed. He talk about the process he went through to realize that his initial ideas was bad and that he needed to pivot. He also talks about his startup hack to finding good developers for cheap and more. Connect with Renji:Twitter: https://twitter.com/RenjiBijoyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/renjibijoy/

    Having a great idea and $1million and still needing to shut down. Discussing founder market fit w/Pranshu of Prayas

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2020 40:00


    Pranshu, co-founder of Prayas Analytics- the google analytics for retail stores talks about the importance of founder market fit. He discusses his experience with shutting down Prayas after not being able to get any "real" customers even though they had money in the bank. Discusses how it was for him to get back out there after shutting down his company. You can connect with Pranshu on Twitter: @pranshu_m

    Learning from multiple failed ideas before building a multimillion dollar business with John Coogan of Soylent

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2020 48:19


    John Coogan, co-founder and former CTO of Soylent shares his story publicly for the first time about his failures before Soylent. 

    Fake traction and the fear of failing with Kristen Fang, co-founder of StrattyX (TechCrunch Disrupt & YCombinator)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2020 47:52


    Kristen Fang, previous co-founder of StrattyX, a trading interface that allowed you set up sophisticated “if-this-then-that” rules and execute orders on the stock market, talks about her experience with shutting down the company after being in the top 4 of Tech Crunch disrupt 2019 and midway through YCombinators Winter batch of 2020. 

    MoveLoot raised $22m & shut down 3 years later. Here's the story w/co-founder Shruti Shah

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2020 48:46


    MoveLoot was an online market place to buy and sell used furniture. They were part of YCombinator's winter 2014 batch. MoveLoot experienced a lot of growth and expanded to multiple cities including NY and LA. They raised multiple rounds of funding summing up to $22m, but ultimately the company had to shut down. Perry dives deep to learn what happened from co-founder Shruti Shah and draw out lessons learned. 

    The story of YCombinator's Dropleaf (Netflix for video games) and why it failed, with Co-founder Vikram Rangraj (CAO @ Rize presently)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2020 54:19


    Vikram  Rangraj and his co-founder had a really awesome idea to build Dropleaf, a video game subscription service for all you can play video games. Essentially Netflix for video games. They got into the prestigious YCombinator in 2017 and had to shut down only 2 years later. Vikram is currently the Chief Academic Officer at Rize Education and he shared his experience of building and shutting down Dropleaf in 2017.Twitter: https://twitter.com/VRangrajLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikram-rangraj/

    Launch Episode

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2020 5:40


    Introducing Lessons From A Failed Startup Podcast. Perry Ogwuche gives a brief intro about the podcast and briefly describes his experience with his failed startup.

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